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Aug 8th / Wednesday / '07

What are we?

In an article by 456 Berea Street, an interesting question is raised. Are we web designers, developers, architects?

Designer has been downplayed by WYSIWYG web creation, the crappy websites of the 90’s and irritating Myspace pages.
Development was previously associated with programming such as PHP and Javascript.
Architect just sounds snobby.

Below is my contribution to the conversation:

I have been leaning towards developer or front-end developer, as there are so many aspects that come into the making of a website. They reach far beyond Photoshop graphics. Information design, organization, interactivity, user demographics all come into play before you even touch the code.

Even if you outsource your ‘programming’, it is often the case that most of that programming has been conceptualized and/or designed by the ‘developer’.