UX Design & political incorrectness | by Shobhit Katikia | Medium

The hatefulness of the design fraternity towards UX Designers has long been out of the Davy Jones locker and I don’t believe there is any point being defensive about it anymore. But as we seldom do, we can ask why. In the Hogwarts schools of Design, one can often find faculties portraying UX Design as a fancy apartment building meant for only one thing- ‘Accommodate a large crowd with alluringly little cost’. “You can choose to be creative or become a UX designer and pay your study loan back.” the words from one of my faculties still give me the screaming abdabs and often hint me at reconsidering my life choices. But what have the UX Designers done to deserve this scorn? Well, a disclaimer- one of the answers may be really thorny without a rosy result. “The term ‘designer’ was first used in this sense in America. It does not refer to an industrial designer, who designs machines or mechanical parts, workshops, or other specialized buildings. He is, in fact, a design engineer, and if he

The hatefulness of the design fraternity towards UX Designers has long been out of the Davy Jones locker and I don’t believe there is any point being defensive about it anymore. But as we seldom do, we can ask why. In the Hogwarts schools of Design, one can often find faculties portraying UX Design as a fancy apartment building meant for only one thing- ‘Accommodate a large crowd with alluringly little cost’. “You can choose to be creative or become a UX designer and pay your study loan back.” the words from one of my faculties still give me the screaming abdabs and often hint me at reconsider