What is "Interactive Designer"
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Interactive designers need to have a sense of code and technology (i.e. what is in the toolbox) or else there is no reason to add in the qualifier (designer itself is a perfectly noble professional title). When hiring, I did not expect interactive designers to have serious coding experience, but I did expect them to have some curiosity. And, although times have now changed, I usually expected them to have some level of flash/animation or ActionScript (even if very minimal) experience. If your interests fall towards the interactive medium (and that is more than web, by the by), then you are an interactive designer.
I must admit I am not a fan of the term Digital Designer which I have seen run rampant around the agencies recently. It makes no sense, particularly as all designers these days (okay, letterpress) are working digitally as their primary tool/environment.