The problem is that "designer" can mean very many different things to different people. There's a large chunk of the world that always read "designer" as "graph

The problem is that "designer" can mean very many different things to different people. There's a large chunk of the world that always read "designer" as "graphic designer". Mixed up with this is the problem that the various communities of practice are, I think, searching for a more common identity. In the development world we have "developers" or "engineers" - which include all of: * back-end coders * front-end coders * devops * folk focussed on building automated tests * folk focussed on tool development to support the rest of the team * database experts * etc. ... and we're also quite happy to have people be good at bits multiple categories and be In the UX community we have: * interaction designers * graphic designers * UI designers * content strategists * usability testers * user researchers And like the dev world there are people who are good a bits of multiple categories, but there isn't really a good general identity. As I said "designer" is often seen as just graphic design. UX Designer is a ghastly clumsy phrase, but at least it doesn't suffer that problem.