Yeah, because calling yourself a designer is going to lead to far less confusion than engineer or architect. "Software designer" sounds like it belongs with "w

Yeah, because calling yourself a designer is going to lead to far less confusion than engineer or architect. "Software designer" sounds like it belongs with "web designer" and "print designer". "Software architect" and "software engineer" won't confuse anyone looking for an actual architect or any of the other various flavours of engineers.