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Re: [ia-55] So what is it that you do?

From: user 4.
Sent on: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 2:53 PM 
I ask them what website they like and what website they hate and then  
I tell them that the work I do is what makes the difference between  
those sites.

kt

On Oct 20, 2009, at 4:37 PM, G wrote:

> Hello Folks,
>
> I am not sure if you guys have ever experienced this but I have run  
> into this scenario way too many times...
>
> It's basically that you are in a public place (a bar, a family  
> dinner, a friend's party) and someone asks you what do you do. And  
> you tell them that you are User Experience Designer (or a  
> Interaction Designer or a Information Architect) and the person just  
> draws a blank. And from there on it is all downhill. You can tell  
> them that design the functionality of a system, that you try to make  
> softwares (or systems) more easily usable to people. You can tell  
> them that you layout the information on different platforms. And  
> they will be like, "oh so you maintain website" or "oh, so you are a  
> programmer" or "oh you write for websites".
>
> Long story short, what I am trying to get to is that I have had a  
> EXTREMELY tough time explaining people what a UX Designer, IA or IX  
> Designer does. And after repeated attempts (and after giving them  
> the wikipedia links) I end up telling people that I am "Graphic  
> Designer for web" (and that just sounds WRONG).
>
> Have you guys run into a similar situation? How do you guys address  
> it?
>
>
> thanks for reading,
> G
>
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