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I don't think 'creative' denigrates regular coders precisely because the term IS from the Advertising industry where there is a clear delineation between "creat
by jianshen 14y ago
I don't think 'creative' denigrates regular coders precisely because the term IS from the Advertising industry where there is a clear delineation between "creative", "sales" and "business". [1]
Ad Agencies/VFX Companies/Design Firms tend to have a "Creative Director" [2] where a Creative Coder would report to and up until recently, their roles would not exist in traditional consumer/enterprise web companies.
Put another way, it's still blurry if someone in such a role would report to an Engineering Director or a Creative Director at a company that had both groups.
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=ad+agency+org+structure https://www.google.com/search?q=ad+agency+org+structure
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_director http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_director
- timtadh 14y agoRespectfully most programmers don't work in advertising. It may be suitable in Advertising where the term is well understood. However, I don't think it should be a widely applied term outside of that field. The "plain sense" of the term is not the technical definition the "plain sense" is as I described it above.