Poll: If You Design and Develop, What Do You Call Yourself?
Posted by Kyle Weems on May 21, 2009I’ve talked about web career job titles in the past, and how confusing they can be. However, yesterday on Unmatchedstyle’s first monthly design panel podcast (vidcast?), Jason Beaird used a word to describe himself that I’d never heard before: designeloper.
I immediately liked it.
(I also liked the fact that he read a quote from my Cuddling With Cufon post. It made me all warm and sappy.)
I liked the title so much, with its jackalope-like nature, that I tweeted about it. Immediately Jin Yang fired back with the fact that Jason was wrong, and the proper term was devsigner.
As a skills-hybrid (granted, very developer-heavy and designer-light in my case) I like the idea of fun terms to help describe those of us that simultaneously try to comprehend typography use as well as learning the newest AJAX trick. So the question that remains is what term is best? Designeloper or devsigner?
Obviously the only way to know for sure is to put the terms in a cage match on a deserted isle where they’ll determine the fate of two dimensions in a tournament to the death. But since we don’t have that option, I’ve made a poll. Please consider taking the time to answer on it.
(Poll after the jump.)
(My apologies if the poll looks funny. I’ve never used this particular tool before.)
Tags: designeloper, devsigner, jason beaird, jin yang, poll, unmatchedstyle
We see this type of questioning a lot, we ran a similar poll on UMS a year or so ago and I always ask people their opinions on what they call themselves. I think hands down most web designers/developers are going to consider themselves designers first and foremost.
Personally I like “designeloper” over “devsigner”. It puts the “design” first…
I think I prefer designeloper myself, as well. As for not wanting to be thought of as developers, I think it’s an aversion to being over-associated with pocket protectors, no matter how good you are at code.
I shook it up a bit and voted for Devsigner it sounds more Dr Evilly or Evillish I am not sure which is grammatically correct, please let me know which wins but up until then I will continue calling you Kyle and your evil twin brother the doppleganger of Kyle
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