Sounds a bit confusing for all Non IT people or also some IT managers who fail to understand the difference between these 2... Well to an extent even I get amused or confused sometimes when people ask me what do I actually do in IT.
I used to say them that I am a User Interface Designer then after some time name became sophisticated... became Interaction Designer. Finally people would sum up and say ooohhh... so you are an web designer. It becomes very difficult for me to explain them and finally I surrender.... YEAH I say I am a sort of Web Designer with a disgusting face.
But to be precise what I do is design websites or applications or portals or whatever relating to interactive medium... keeping USERS who will be seeing or using it... but does it really happen... you create some designs as per Usability guidelines and many a times its controlled by the customer. But doesn’t matter I make sure that at least 70% of what I do is been implemented if not 100%.
But I enjoy doing that no cribbing I am daam serious…
To be very frank Designing was not my cup of tea 10 years back….. I was very bad in drawings and in my schooling days my drawing teacher used to hate me. So again the point arises…. So what do I do then in JOB…. MAN MAN this is getting a bit weird. Things changed when I luckily got into an Advertising company, don’t ask me as what? Yeah as Data Entry Operator. After slogging for a year in there as FOX PRO data entry operator…. Got into designing BILLBOARDS (In India we call them Hoardings) and then DOT COM happened and then I was pushed to IT.
So name it User Interface or Interaction Designer or Analyst ….. finally (Zensar’s so called Usability LAB) got designated as Usability Consultant… sounds COOL right
Gopi
I used to say them that I am a User Interface Designer then after some time name became sophisticated... became Interaction Designer. Finally people would sum up and say ooohhh... so you are an web designer. It becomes very difficult for me to explain them and finally I surrender.... YEAH I say I am a sort of Web Designer with a disgusting face.
But to be precise what I do is design websites or applications or portals or whatever relating to interactive medium... keeping USERS who will be seeing or using it... but does it really happen... you create some designs as per Usability guidelines and many a times its controlled by the customer. But doesn’t matter I make sure that at least 70% of what I do is been implemented if not 100%.
But I enjoy doing that no cribbing I am daam serious…
To be very frank Designing was not my cup of tea 10 years back….. I was very bad in drawings and in my schooling days my drawing teacher used to hate me. So again the point arises…. So what do I do then in JOB…. MAN MAN this is getting a bit weird. Things changed when I luckily got into an Advertising company, don’t ask me as what? Yeah as Data Entry Operator. After slogging for a year in there as FOX PRO data entry operator…. Got into designing BILLBOARDS (In India we call them Hoardings) and then DOT COM happened and then I was pushed to IT.
So name it User Interface or Interaction Designer or Analyst ….. finally (Zensar’s so called Usability LAB) got designated as Usability Consultant… sounds COOL right
Gopi
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