There are hoards of professional web designers out there ready to offer their services to you. And if you are serious about getting your website designed well and good, you ought to know what type of designer will best suit your needs.

With all the terms like: experience designer, interaction designer, interface designer and graphic designer floating around out there you could be a little confused. Employers and companies like to put titles on positions, assign duties and pre-requisites for those positions and this is where the confusion starts. Many professions actually overlap and nowadays web designers are required to perform multiple disciplines within their roles.
It is not to say that you could do with any one type of designer, but by knowing the key functionalities of their work, you could decide whom to stress more on

Let me explain the meanings of common titles in the web industry:

Graphic Designer
A graphic designer is responsible for the graphic elements on a website which includes logos, images and buttons. A graphic designer is responsible for all aspects of visual communication to the visitor.
If your website deals majorly with graphical elements, then it is best to stress on this part. The graphic designer can be briefed about what exactly you need of the website to look like.

Interaction Designer
An interaction designer is usually more concerned with how the user interacts and behaves with the website and of course how to website reacts back. They would mainly be concerned with the interactions with the user.
User behavior constitutes critical data and information about consumer preferences and habits, on which you can design your marketing techniques. By knowing what exactly your customers need, you could give them exactly that.

Front end designer
The front end designer usually is responsible for the graphic design that constitutes any HTML, XHTML and CSS coding. Front end designers are quite common and are tasked with many static websites. Once the design requires some database interaction or large functionality it is usually passed off to a developer.

Experience designer
Experience designers focus on the overall holistic experience the user would have with the website or application. Experience design encompasses and overlaps the disciplines of information architecture, graphic design, usability and interaction design.

All these areas of work overlap. And with these role descriptions, you may have come to realize that you cannot do with any one of them. The best deal would be to hire a designer who has considerable knowledge of all these key areas, or else hire a service provider that has team of all these types of designers.



Michael Henderson is a professional web technician and SEO expert. He has completed several web design India projects over his time in the web services
industry. WWW has appointed him acting consultant to provide web solutions and instruct the web designing team to create web pages that adhere to the W3C standards.