[Sigia-l] Frustrated Mid-Level IA job seeker

[Dmitry Nekrasovski]

Malahat,

Many companies do not have a "designer" role per se, or use that job
title for people who write HTML code. Not that there's anything wrong
with that. :)

Seriously, as previous posters already mentioned, there is much
overlap between all these roles. In my team, for instance, we have
IA's who come from a BA background and occasionally work as BA's, as
well as web designers who occasionally do IA work. The main reason for
this is to ensure that everyone's time is fully utilized - in a
consulting/agency environment, utilization is a big deal - but it also
helps team members round out their skills and pursue new career
directions.

Hope this helps,

Dmitry

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On 2/28/06, Malahat Hosseini <mhosseini at sfu.ca> wrote:
> wow...
> then what do the designers do?? :)
>
> m
>
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:35:52 -0500 donna at maadmob.net wrote:
> > Business analysts around here collect user requirements, determine
> > functionality, design interfaces, document requirements and create
> > functional specifications.
> >
> > More usually they do it on interactive systems than informational
> > systems like websites.
> >
> > Frequently, there are many relatively entry-level BA jobs. Most
> > BAs I have worked with have no qualifications or training in
> > requirements gathering and interface design. They just make it up
> > as they go along (yes, my opinion, but one based on observation
> > ;)
> >
> > Donna
> >
> >
> > On Mon Feb 27 20:46:44 PST 2006, Malahat Hosseini
> > <mhosseini at sfu.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > pardon my ignorance, I don't see what the relationship between
> > > bussiness
> > > analyst and IA job is. Would anyone have the time for a little
> > > explanation?
> > > Is the bussiness analyst actually the user researcher? Just shows
> > > how much I have stayed too long in academia , I guess! :)
> > >
> > >
> > > malahat
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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