Black history of designer posts

A few days ago in the recruitment of designer job requirements, the mind which recalls his own job from now through to the job title, as many as eight from the early "webpage production" to the present "product design", which The changes inside just happens to be a change in the status of the designer in this bitter mental journey. I try to write these posts I have experienced to see if we have the same experience or supplement?

1. Web site production

Just graduated, in major recruitment sites are basically "site production" position, in addition to the concept of the more advanced companies and software companies, most companies have no concept of the designer, is to recruit a person to get all the relevant things , Responsible for the design + front + program, it will not subdivide a lot of tasks, fairly good then the requirements of the page is not particularly high, then my first job is to do this, to be honest very hard, but a lot harvested .

2. Web Design

"Web Design" is an upgraded version of "Web Page Creation." It is extremely effective to cover all with one person. Many companies took apart the idea of ​​"Design + Front End + Program". At that time, the mainstream practice was "Web Design" Front-end. "To develop a" program, "a slightly better company would then have a" web-production "position as the" front end. "(At that time, the web front end concept was just beginning and many people still referred to the front end as web page production.)

Art

And "web design" the same period there is the title of "art", the position of many people who do not know, or will be called, so many designers have been ridicule, but also the history of the design industry issues.

I will briefly talk about the "art jobs" I know: in the early software companies, the software was implementation-oriented. The design of the interface was done by the programmer. After the completion, it would beautify the "art workers." Completed on the basis of making him look better. Later into the Internet age, many people who hold this concept or have been accustomed to this name will still call the designer "art" to.

4.UI designer

Suddenly, as a spring breeze, the transition from "Dead Beauty" to "UI Designer" is not just a simple change in position. Rather, the whole industry has gradually increased its emphasis on designing this piece. I personally feel that two factors Played a role:

Foreign Internet companies enter China to popularize various design concepts and designer-related content

The outbreak of the domestic Internet, Web2.0, the portal market, a variety of investment fiery, electricity supplier war, video war, thousands of regiment wars, etc., to improve the public's aesthetic of the site, the interface requirements, the designer's pursuit.

Therefore, the art-oriented concept of "Art Work" has gradually been eliminated. As we pay more and more attention to the interface and experience, UI designers are beginning to popularize.

5.UE designer / user experience designer

With a better interface and interface experience is even more attention, many UI designers in the design interface has been empathy, what the user is thinking to do the interface, but also know that this Is the user experience, and later with the popularity of various domestic civil organizations (UCDChina, UPA), the user experience exploded in the design circle.

There is also an important factor, that is, Steve Jobs where Apple introduced products, and related user experience examples also affect many CEOs, after which the CEO not only focus on the user experience (not necessarily all), but all will be Claim to be the most important user experience. This is also driving the industry as a whole, so it calls UE designers for some designers who value the user experience.

Interaction designer

UE (User Experience) is a noun, after all, the specific design or the need to do more specific positions, interactive designers is boiling post-emergence of user experience boom, usually under the UED (user experience department), is responsible for the design of the product Information structure, interaction with various elements, the user's behavior path, often output logic diagram, structure diagram, wireframe, with the completion of the visual designer to complete the design of the entire interface, and finally to the front to complete.

Due to the particularity of the job, the interaction designer is usually a T-type skill, and needs to understand both the design and the front-end and development. In fact, I think the UI UE should be good for the interaction designer. The user sees the interface.

7.UED designer

Many of my friends say my job is UED. Although UED can be translated as "User Experience Design," UED is widely understood as "User Experience Department" in China and is actually a group of user experience Team or department, including "front-end engineer", "interactive designer", "visual designer", "user researcher", so called "UED designer" is not accurate enough.

Product designer

Currently not a mainstream job placement, only existing in several companies positions, "Product Designer" post is probably like this, he needs to have a "product manager" and "interactive designer" function, it is best to have The skills of "UI Designer," so that from the early needs of the collection to the middle of the design details of the product, the last post-on-line user feedback and data tracking can be controlled.

For a long time will be divided into points, the long run will be together, at the beginning of the "webpage production" when the various arrangements, and then various segments, to the present "product designer" re-convergence. I think this is a re-understanding of the design of this line.

* The above are all I have experienced or friends to share, can not represent the entire industry, so if there are some problems please entertain a lot, if you feel like you can reply me. :)