And what do you do?

How do you describe your job role? Here are the results of a recent 'Preferred UX/UI Title' Poll. 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 participate 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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