[Sigia-l] Re: What am I?

[Miriam Frost]

> For my company I create flowcharts, site maps, wireframes, interface
> designs, then I am also the person who slices it all up into front end
code,
> it then gets handed off to the back end dev's. What am I? I have no idea
> what to tell people, I work in the "graphics department" but I am not just
a
> designer, and my education is in multimedia, not graphic design, so though
I
> am a strong designer, I don't consider it my only strength, it's just easy
> to get a job when you can design and code, not just one or the other. We
> don't have any AI's or anything of that nature in our web development
> department, so if I need  a sitemap or a wireframe, I mainly do it myself.

OMG, you're me!

I do *everything* until my valid code with pretty design gets handed to the
backend developer... who usually sits on it. My background was in
advertising and marketing; I had put together a few sites when I landed in
my current position but am now a lean, mean web designing machine. When I
started, it was quite unfashionable to be called a "web designer," as
everyone had a pimply 15 year-old cousin who was a web designer. A co-worker
at a former company did it all, too, and was titled, "e-commerce developer."
That worked for me for a while, until "developer" came to mean "hard core
back end coding-type stuff."

What's even more frustrating about the dearth of all-encompassing titles is
that I'm seeing a lot of specialization in the want ads -- an IA gives a
wireframe to the Photoshop person (on who doesn't know the first thing about
code / the internet), who then gives the pretty layout to the HTML person,
who then gives it to the backend person. What is an advanced generalist to
do?!

best,
Miriam


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