[Sigia-l] Are you ready for it?

[Stewart Dean]

At 16:22 05/08/2003 +1000, infoarchitect at ourbrisbane.com wrote:
>Quoting Listera <listera at rcn.com>:
> >         "I have met the enemy and he is us."
>
>Yay!  Yet another name to perpetuate the very problem Tog has tried to 
>encapsulate! :P
>
>Yes, it is a problem.  What do we call ourselves?  Depending on the 
>contract, in the past few
>years I have been given the title of:
>User Interface Designer
>Usability Engineer
>Human Factors Engineer
>Information Architect
>Human Computer Interaction Specialist
>Accessibility Consultant
>User Experience Architect
>User Experience Designer
>User Centred Designer
>...and my current title:
>Business Analyst - User Experience Specialist
>
>All these names for a guy that just wants to do Human Factors... :P  Oh 
>well, nobody knows
>what Human Factors is (in industry), so I'll wear whatever name they want 
>as long as they pay
>the money and let me do my thing. ;)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ash Donaldson
>(choose title from above)

Like minds - there's some great ones in there Ash.

Oddly the title I like the most is the one I laughed at the most when I 
first heard it - User Experience Architect. The reasons - well it just has 
the best fit of the things I do. I work with more than information as, no 
doubt,  we all do. This doesn't mean I'm aiming to stop calling myself  an 
information architect. After all we need to think of our 'users' and 
they've got used to roughly what an information architect does.

I whole agree with Lyle's open letter to Tog on the whole issue.

The biggest irony I find is that there has always been an ongoing 
discussion about our own nomenclature when that is so often our 
responsibility on a project.

Can we talk about Visio instead?

Stewart Dean
(lora ipsum)