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So let's take all this stuff that a UI designer does, claim that a UI designer doesn't do them and can't possibly understand them, and invent a new term, UX, to
by TheZenPsycho 13y ago
So let's take all this stuff that a UI designer does, claim that a UI designer doesn't do them and can't possibly understand them, and invent a new term, UX, to mean the thing that UI design used to mean. Okay.
- derefr 13y agoWell, no. All those people who were already doing those things are UX designers now. I think the point of the rename is mostly that "UI designer" is limited and derogatory in the perception it encourages, like "code monkey" or "web designer." Nobody just does UI, so nobody is, or was ever, just a UI designer.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoUI designer is not really a job title. Visual and interaction designers are common titles, UX designer is used in orgs who don't want to distinguish officially, though designers usually have strength in one area over the other. At least that is the way it seems to work at big companies. I'm sure smaller companies use whatever the manager thinks of.
- TheZenPsycho 13y agoThat reminds me of the universities that I went to that tried to rename the Graphic Design departments to "Communication Design" or "Graphic Communications" or anything but the image of a lowly pixel pusher. Graphic Design has been greatly devalued by the prevalence of the adobe suite of software- it used to be about solving large organisational problems. now people just think "The way it looks" and that perception has become impossible to shake. It's a real problem. I don't think it's solved by coming up with new airy fairy words that nobody understands, and are never clearly defined. It gives the strong impression that it's not a real job. Like "social media consultant".