Friday, 18 April 2008

Looking for the similarities rather than the differences on the description of my job title

By chance I ran into a description of my job title, and while reading it I thought it was as vague as I had intended it to be when I gave myself the nomination. I didn't want to be called an Information Architect, because I'm not only that. I'm also not a Concept Developer only, neither am I a Interaction Design solely. Experience Architect was the best name I could find to not describe me as anything specific, so that I could do all the things I want and like under the umbrella of a name no one really understands.

Here are some of the descriptions I found:

The Experience Architect
is that person relentlessly focused on creating remarkable individual experiences. This person facilitates positive encounters with your organization through products, services, digital interactions, spaces, or events. Whether an architect or a sushi chef, the Experience Architect maps out how to turn something ordinary into something distinctive—even delightful—every chance they get.

Later, more clarification:
1. Interaction Designers are User Experience Architects. They are the primary role responsible for writing scenarios.

2. Business Analyst is also responsible for writing scenarios but less from a perspective of design and more from a perspective of goal writing (where the scenarios come from) and ensuring the scenarios meet the goals of the customer. It's entirely possible for a Business Analyst to not write a single word within a scenario but they should know it well.

3. Business Analysts are the knowledge people. They understand the priorities, the functionality, the domain and provide a bridge between the user experience and technical design.

4. Business Analysts are the primary role to write functional requirements. They could write them side by side with a solution architect or with strong collaboration but they are ultimatly responsible for functional requirements.

5. For domain modeling. I imagine a BA and SA sitting side by side building it together. Both should understand the technique.

(little note: still, me, as an experience architect play all these rolls, we just charge differently per the knowledge of each role)

... tired of researching, I'll conclude this post later

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