Which kind of design does the web talk about?
Posted on | May 8, 2008 |
I got a bit curious the other day, and decided to check what of the “usability” and “user experience” skills and expertise profiles were more popular. The curiosity is the fruit of a certain widespread confusion as to what kind of design skills are needed when in a development project. Many times I found that the difference between an interaction designer and an information architect isn’t obvious to product and business people, and, alas, at times to designers and web developers as well. In fact, I have found that often enough whether the “job title” is information architect or interaction design is a consequence of the specific company habit, or culture, or fashion.
So I got curious to see what the web talks about. And here are the results of my little check:
So this is the result of a google blog search. No date boundary, so the whole archive. Exact match search. The differences aren’t so great, though Information Architecture has a little edge over the rest. User Experience Design though is dramatically lower than all others.
I then looked at the web results:
While the scale is of course much bigger, the distribution is similar.
To complete this little survey of mine, I also searched for broad fields, such as usability, user experience etc. Below are the results (blogs search only):
Usability is absolutely the most talked about.
Oh, well, make what you wish of it, I was curious 
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