UX job roles - aren't they all same...?

UX work - what it is and what are the differences in each role?

Let me start emphasising that User Experience (UX) is mostly concerned with the big picture.

Key thought process for UX Lead/Manager is “How do i can create great & convenient experience for the users?” and to structure the experience with the mindset “What needs to be communicated?”

Of course, nature of the work is iterative: design, prototype, get feedback, insight...  and then start again.

Although UX is often seen as an “look & feel”-thing, the actual content (and the big picture) is the most important thing. In order to have clear big picture, one needs to research and develop, prototype, test, shipping and iterate.

UX is actually never “finished”.

UX design needs to be disciplined with clear processes. Taking into account several things like:

-Business goals

-Information architecture

-Content development

-Wireframing

-Testing

-QA etc.

Since UX is such a wide term, here are brief descriptions related job titles and their descriptions:

Art / Creative Director
The main goal is quality control, leadership of other design team, and client communication. 

UX Designer

Studying and researching how people use a site or an app. Giving insight and launching changes for the better (improvements) to UX based on testing results. Sometimes UX designers have or need design or implementation skills. 

UI Designer

Designing and not so about implementation. Really good at design-tools-of-choice with slight HTML and CSS skill. 

Interaction Designer

Mainly design, just like a UI Designer, but with more focus on how things are used and movements.

Web Designer

Designing & implementing the web service / app. Skills would be design-tools-of-choice, HTML, CSS, and e.g. JavaScript.

Front End Developer

Work is focused on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, (and some backend work). Good skills also in the other technologies is expected. This work is not “designing”. Maybe, Software Engineer could also describe the job.