[IxDA Discuss] functional designer?

[Peter Bagnall]

Russ,

I'd tend to interpret functional designer as a synonym of interaction  
designer. Mostly because it would make sense for a functional  
designer to be someone who creates a functional spec. And a  
functional spec talks about the interaction between the software and  
it's user.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_specification

I tend to use the term "engineering design" to mean the backend.

Having said that I don't especially like "functional designer" as a  
term. As you point out, it's rather ambiguous.

Cheers
--Pete

On 18 Oct 2007, at 21:40, Russell Wilson wrote:

> I wrote a post on my blog recently about software design which  
> proposed
> calling front-end design "interaction design" and back-end design
> "functional
> design" --
> http://www.dexodesign.com/2007/10/what-do-we-mean-by-software- 
> design.html
>
> Ironically, a few days later our CEO sent me an article from Zigzag
> Marketing
> addressed to product managers which talked about the importance of the
> "functional
> designer" to product development, only by "functional designer"  
> they were
> referring
> to what we would call interaction design (for the most part). See the
> functional designer
> article at: http://www.zigzagmarketing.com/articles.asp
>
> Has anyone come across "functional design" as a term? I thought it  
> made
> sense
> for back-end design.
>
> Best regards,
> Russ
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Russell Wilson
> Blog: http://www.dexodesign.com
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