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The Unnecessary Fragmentation of Design Jobs(m.signalvnoise.com)

over 6 years ago from Kyle Case, Product Designer

  • barry saundersbarry saunders, over 6 years ago

    I think differentiation between UX (research, strategy, ideation, prototyping) and design (art direction, comps) is helpful when job hunting / recruiting, if only to denote which skills you have/don't have. But I just call myself a designer personally.

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    • Marc EdwardsMarc Edwards, over 6 years ago

      Yep, I definitely understand there’s some benefits to labelling things, especially when hiring or searching for a job. I’m not sure the current labels are the best representation of that — they’re confusing.

      I do have a significant bias though: I like being involved in the entire process and I would struggle to let someone else be the ideas person and for me to just be the implementer, or vice versa. I don’t like the titles, because that’s not how I like to work.

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      • barry saundersbarry saunders, over 6 years ago

        That's fair, for me I do research and ideation but not implementation. For better or worse there's a perception that the startup model of designer is the default, and so I get offered a lot of jobs that expect art direction / comps / front end, and little to no research, strategy, user testing, prototyping.

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