At work we’ve recently had a couple of new starters, and every new starter gets shown round and introduced to everyone.
When they get introduced to me, I always here ‘here’s Stephen he does all our Flash work’, to which to new starter usually says ‘so your the designer’.
I would like to say ‘no I’m not a designer, I’m a developer like the Java developers we have here. I’m not a graphic designer, I don’t know anything about fonts or know all colours by their hex codes, I can’t draw or know all the shortcuts in Photoshop’.
Who do I blame for this mis-representation, is it the person making the introductions? No. Is it the new starter? No. Its Adobe and their decision to call Flex Flash.
As soon as Adobe decided to call Flex Builder Flash Builder and rebrand everything under the Flash name, I’ve been seen as a Flash designer.
If they stuck with the two separate brands I could set myself as a Flex developer, which I am. When introduced to people I could say I’m a Flex developer. If Adobe pushed the brand of Flex in its own right I could say I work with Flex and people would know what I mean.
Sadly I have to keep saying ‘yes I’m a Flash developer’, while mumbling ‘actually I’m a Flex developer’.
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