Are we limiting ourselves with titles?
I’m by no means an expert in the industry, rather trying to have an opinion and defend it.
*This was something I wrote few months ago, but did not publish at that time*

Early this week, Dann Petty, asked this interesting question in Twitter:
And of course, a lot of people in the industry tried to answer with a lot of definitions:
This thread got big, and it looked that even in the industry there is still a lot of confusion on what our title should be.
As someone who is entering the industry and is a ‘noob’ on it; this thread got me thinking in what we are really trying to achieve with all these semantics? Are they necessary? Do they make us better designers? Also, what are we teaching to people that are barely entering the industry (like me)?
In my school, the very first thing they taught us, is that we are no longer interaction designers (this is what the major is called: interaction design) or UX Designers, but, we are Digital Product Designers, also they told us not to ever mention ‘users’ and try to use other titles for the…. ahmm… people? subjects? … that are using our product.
I have to confess that in my twitter profile I had or still have “UI/UX Designer — Digital Product Design”; to be honest, I had these titles because of what they have taught me and what I was really aiming to be… and to impress my 118 followers :(.
After reading these twitter thread I wonder if titles are only used to limit us as designers, or even just of a way to show off. Are we so caught up in what other people should call us that we have forgotten about what we really are? At the end of the day I agree with this tweet:
As designers, we should worry more about the work we deliver, rather than the title we hold… just my 2 cents here!

