Molly and Mike have whipped-up The Interaction Architect Job Title Generator in response to the latest venerable trolls about “what it is we call ourselves when we are doing what we do”. A swift click on it generated the title of this post as my new-new job description.

I was travelling in a cab on Sunday evening and the cabbie asked what I did, and I replied in the usual way – this conversation plays out this way most often:

Me : “I’m a designer”

Cabbie: “what sort of thing do you design”

Me : “Websites mainly – on the internet. Do you use the Internet?”

Cabbie : “nah – not that much, my wife and kids do”

Me : “Right, right”

Cabbie : “so where do you do that then?”

Me : “at the BBC”

Cabbie : “Oh yeah? Yeah the wife likes that, the BBC website”

Me : “oh… good!”

Cabbie : “so you do the graphics then? How it looks and that?”

Me : “Sometimes, but more often I work on how it’s going to work, so that it’s easy to use – and does what you want it to do.”

Cabbie : “Ahhh, right. Could do with more of that on the internet. Things are too bleedin’ hard for me to bother with most of the time.”

Me : “Just here anywhere on the left is fine for me. Cheers”

Anyway. My point is – it’s not so hard to explain what we do, and for people to understand the point off doing it. Discussing what that’s called is just bores me to tears.