[Sigia-l] Information Architecture 3.0

[malahat at telus.net]

I exactly know what you feel like Alex. In fact, on my side as an interaction
designer ( so to speak) each time I hear the word Ia , I shudder: "does it mean
something I am NOT?"

but what about an HCI expert? user experience designer? Interface designer?
Interactive media designer? They are all like terms thrown in your face to make
you worried about your identity.

I wish all would just vanish and what we would see in the job ads wwould be a
simple : "Designer of digital software/ media and products aware of new design
methodologies. point!"

:)

malahat


Quoting Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen at gmail.com>:

> On 12/3/06, Andrew Boyd <facibus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've mentioned this before I guess - I used to be married to a systems
> > engineer who used to look down on the local car mechanic calling
> > himself an automotive engineer. The labels should never be more than a
> > convenience, otherwise I think we're in danger of forgetting the job
> > we went in to do.
> 
> Hmm. There's a few things to be said about this that works the other
> way as well. Some times that title says something about the person
> with that title. What's the difference between a business analyst and
> a user-experience alchymist? They probably do the same job, at least
> in spirit, but I'm pretty certain they do it very differently. I can't
> tell you exactly what the difference would be, but there are
> underlying currents of things, things like if a person is allowed to
> even call himself something as eclectic as UX alchymist, is he an A4
> business analyst or something more / slightly different? Is that good
> or bad? Who knows, but I think it's better for people to use whatever
> context you can give.
> 
> If I present myself with my former title to people I meet, certain
> expectations arise that probably aren't warranted, and my job can
> possibly be called something else which I indeed do; I never present
> myself with that title, but a different title that indicates more my
> approach to things, often customised to the context of the people I
> meet.
> 
> However, It's also interesting in another way, as I'm job hunting
> these days ; if people advertised jobs as IA or UCD at best, I could
> at least find them. Right now they are usually called "business
> analyst" which seriously is a flawed title in my UCD world. Not all of
> us have a working network of friends that help, especially if you're
> new to the field or work in cities with limitations.
> 
> 
> Alex
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