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@scottjenson I just say "Designer" when it's obvious that I'm working in the realm of software. Otherwise "Software Designer".
I've been all across the board with different types of design, so limiting it to UI, UX, icon, visual, web, etc. is absurd... as is listing them all out.
But I don't need to advertise myself for work; I have a relatively stable job and have worked in a niche (FOSS) for quite some time, so I don't have to.
However, my approach definitely wouldn't work for everyone. 
@scottjenson "Jack of All Trades Software Designer" 
@garrett Fair enough, I'm just trying to stop a recent trend to use the term "UX/UI Designer" which isn't accurate, and more importantly, just confuses people. To make things worse, most organizations that use the term for recruitment usually mean "pixel person"
@scottjenson Yeah, totally. It's even worse when you get hired as a UI/UX Designer, with decades of portfolio work to show for it — and are then told to make websites and stickers instead. (This even happened to me. 
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"Software Interaction and Visual Designer" is at least a bit more encompassing, I guess, and doesn't rely on acronyms.
“Been all across the board with different types of design, so limiting to UI, UX, icon, visual, web, etc. is absurd... as is listing them all out.” - it’s not about listing but having ontology/classification system defined, shared & understood.(DSU)
Biology has organism, species & genus structure. Chemistry has the periodic table of elements. Physics & maths have theories, equations and proofs.
What would ontology for Designer practices and patterns look like - DSU?
@dahukanna @garrett It doesn't need to be that complicated. There is one discipline: UX design. A startup makes its first hire a UX designer. As the team grows, they hire specialists, e.g. a user researcher, a visual designer, and a prototyper to fill out the team. As these skills aren't locked behind a single type, it's possible for one person to do many of them.
This is just like the term programmer which can literally do everything, but as the team grows, branches out to e.g front/back end
This is a really important conversation and thanks for starting the dialog.
I’d say Designer is more akin to Programmer.
UX Design has many parallel partners in product managers and developers but it’s not a simple linear association. It more set theory intersections. I’m tempted to draw something. Will share later as I’m on mobile.