In the haze of what we follow in different workflows engaged in design & development of websites one usualy gets to think am I doing the right thing? Most of the time, yes would be a good answer but for many of us it’s kind of a nobody-to-follow or an uncovered maze. You know what I’m talking about?
System Analysis & Design
I took this very exciting course in college. It was called System Analysis for business. It had definitions for designers, developers, architects and so on in software & solution making circle. Not forgetting how close web-dev is to that it’s still not so clear.
Corny & Cheesy job-titles
Everyone on the web makes up a new job-title and goes on with it. I heard of User Experience Architect, Graphics Optimizer, Web Optimizer and Design Analyst. I mean, what’s up?
So when they call you web-designer or web-developer next time, how can you define what you do exactly? Let’s say you go meet the clients too; are you gonna’ call yourself Account Exec too?
What I wanna’ say over here is that we web-people or the people who make websites are still not recognized and our what-you-do answers are quite unknown for many. Did we mention how web-designers & web-developers are getting closer to each other and how much the line is shrinking between both? It’s kind of becomming web-designers and graphic-designers well, mostly.
Where’s my ground?
In the process of making software-solution for business it is recomanded that Business-Analysts do the research and the studies on the business-logics of the software. How is it done in the web world? I’m not talking web-applications that do business processes; I’m talking web-showcases and branding campains. Is it kind of an advertising school/market knowledge? That’s what I want to know. I’m still confused. Now add some interaction to that and some more information. Now what happens? now instead of Marketing execs we get CIOs or PRs?
Get where I’m throwing at? I just think there’s still no solid model for doing this job. I again am learning that. Well, it’s not a matured market where everyone has a different perception on what the web can bring to a business specialy the small/medium sized companies.
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