Dexo Design » ux title http://www.dexodesign.com Russell Wilson's blog on Web Design and Engineering Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:39:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha Results for Most Preferred UX/UI Title Poll http://www.dexodesign.com/2009/06/19/results-for-most-preferred-uxui-title-poll/ http://www.dexodesign.com/2009/06/19/results-for-most-preferred-uxui-title-poll/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:09:49 +0000 Russell Wilson http://www.dexodesign.com/?p=392
  • What do we mean by software design?
    • ]]>     Participants were asked to rank titles (prefixes and suffixes) in order of their preference. This doesn’t reflect current titles – this is preferred titles regardless of current titles.
    - Surveys completed: 146 (hundreds of abandons)
    - No data on participants (current titles, etc.) – anonymous ranking only without additional questions
    - Request to take survey sent to: IxDA, Refresh, Agile-Usability, Facebook, Twitter

    Results:

    Prefix Rank (most preferred to least):

    1. User Experience
    2. Interaction
    3. User Interface
    4. Usability
    5. Web
    6. Other

    Suffix Rank (most preferred to least):

    1. Designer
    2. Architect
    3. Engineer
    4. Developer
    5. Other

    Conclusion?

    “User Experience” and “Designer” were the preferred terms, but not necessarily in conjunction.  Although this doesn’t surprise me, I continue to question the long-term survival of “user experience” as a title term.  To me it is so ambiguous that it is essentially meaningless, an opinion that is supported by its misunderstanding outside (and within) our circles.

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    1. What do we mean by software design?

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