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Visual designer
Graphic designer --> related to visual
Interior designer --> related to architect
Motion designer
3D designer --> related to motion

UX designer/interaction designer

Close but not designer

Illustrator --> close to visual designer
Architect
Animator
Typographer

I would classify product designer as someone who designs physical products e.g. you model Dyson vacuum cleaners ("productontwikkeling").

But there also digital product designers, this is more about software, what features should go in, what should be left out, how the features should work (now we're veering towards ux/interaction design again).

Designing a product doesn't have to be a small physical item like a vacuum cleaner. There are also car designers, rocket designers, bridge designers etc. - some jobs are between product design and architecture while others are engineering + product design.

Now then, what would you call people that do urban planning? In theory you could call anyone who defines where something should go a designer. This is why the word designer without defining it doesn't really mean anything.

Maybe packaging is where three dimentional functionalities meet graphic design.

@P45C4L Good point. There will always be an example of overlap between design fields I think.

I also believe I’ve missed another kind of designer: the animator, or Time Designer. So that would result in:

• Architect (Space Designer): manipulates space.
• Product Designer: manipulates 3D objects in space.
• Graphic Designer: manipulates 2D objects in space.
• Animator (Time Designer): manipulates time.