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What's the difference between all those jobs with designer in the title?

What's the difference between all those jobs with designer in the title?

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What's the difference between all those jobs with designer in the title?

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- [Instructor] Design is a verb meaning to create, fashion, execute, or construct according to a plan. Designers are the people who do this creation. On a software development project, what's being constructed is the interaction, the experience, the visual look and feel, the motion, audio, and other content. So it's not surprising that there are lots of people who call themselves designers despite having very different skillsets. Designers are the people responsible for the user experience. Because user experiences are so varied and because it can take time to become really skilled at specific elements of the design process, people tend to specialize in one element even if they have general skills that could be applied more broadly across the interface. Interaction design, which is also called experience design, or just XD, creates the mechanics of the interface. That means what appears on each screen and how screens flow…

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