Google's "designer drain"

Re:Google's "designer drain" by ctingom on Friday March 20, 2009 @05:57PM (#525671)

The issue I have with the word "designer" is that in this case it is meant to imply "visual design only." I like to think of myself as far more than a "makes it look pretty" designer.

For example, I work with customers all of the time and design their web application interfaces, and the "interaction design." I spend a lot of time working on the information that needs to be presented, and exploring various ways to make pages easier to use. To me, that's design.

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Re:Google's "designer drain" by ojbyrne on Friday March 20, 2009 @06:41PM (#525727)

Some programmers out there hate the fact that their jobs mean "make the back end work," when in fact they know plenty about usability and interaction design. It cuts both ways.

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Re:Google's "designer drain" by adamhowell on Friday March 20, 2009 @06:14PM (#525697)

For the record, I did mainly markup, CSS & JS for Google Sites and some prototyping for Gmail and the like. But I usually use designer instead of UX engineer or Front-end designer/developer for expediancy and plus I'd hate to sound like an affected douche.

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