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Pascal Magnenat's avatar

I have started in this field more than 25 years ago. Of course at that time nobody used UX and all the associated expressions of jobs. To be understood by my clients, I also changed my job title, shifting from usability to UX. Retrospectively I think it was a mistake, specially when UX is associated with designer. Who can design experiences? New gods maybe? Every single experience is by definition unique and personal. Usability, interaction design and other words used before UX seem clearer and less pretentious to me.

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Aloysius's avatar

In my 8 year career I went from calling myself an interaction designer (how i graduated), ux designer (which i thought sounded better) service designer (since I also did business analysis tasks, plus it differentiated me from ux designers without a degree) and now product designer (because there is more work and pays better then a ux designer role).

Agile guru’s have declared me to be a developer, because in scrum there’s according to them only 3 roles: developers, product owners and scrum masters.

Now I am thinking whether in my next job I shouldn’t call myself a product manager (who does the design as well), because then I could get a raise and don’t have some manager above me who has the need to tell me how the product should be instead of letting me design it - apparently all managers seem to be allergic to listening to the designer since it offends their status.

So, yeah, I don’t mind calling it UX design - but if it means biting myself in the ass.. then, no thanks.

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