"interactive designer"
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The whole problem stems from the fact that everyone wants to call themselves something fancy even though they don't belong in that category. So they pollute and mix industry recognized and well established titles with what they "feel" they should be called.
Web Designer or just designer in today's work is basically a production artist who puts together graphical assets in an organized manner and expands and details designs that Art Director supplied.
Interactive Designer's role is to imagine and visualize and sometimes create in simpler terms how the user experience and rich interactivity will happen. They are creating how users will interact and get to specific content designed by web designers.
Interactive designers need to know more about technology in general than web designers. Web designers are really required to know graphical tools and somewhat HTML/CSS. Interactive Designers have to know one level up and understand technologies that are used to bring that interaction to life even though they don't necessarily build the thing.
Interactive Developer is a more modern term that describes those who actually bring those interaction designs to life and are usually interactive designers with software engineering skillls and understand languagues like JS/Flash and all the the tools/languages in bringing this front end rich experience to life.
Web Developer is a person who can do a job of interactive developer (but they are usually less creative and are mostly dealing with mostly technical side of development) and deal with the widest range of technologies, from front-end languages and tools to back end stuff such as PHP, Python, databases, more advanced JS and so on.