Design Technologist

http://www.marcelray.com/portfolio.php#!BWCO_WWIITimeline

So I started to look for a job role that best describes my technology based background with art, the first I looked at was Design Technologist. I checked out Marcel Ray's webpage portfolio to assess what the role encompassed.

Who is a Design Technologist?
Design Technologists have an expertise that combines traits of a great designer and a great engineer. We have advanced knowledge of one or more digital delivery mediums but also a strong basis in UX, visual, and motion design.

Design Technologists serve as a bridge between design and engineering. We bring an engineer’s pattern thinking to systematizing designs and a designers eye for fit and finish and empathy for a user’s needs.

Design Technologists can and should be found at every step of a reasonably-sized design operation, our responsibilities should include:

1. Informing the design process with the opportunities and challenges presented by the medium though which the user will experience the product.
2. Building a scaleable code-based design system that has the design intention baked directly into it in the form of component granularity and class-naming choices.
3. Leading styleguide-driven development/design to create product efficiencies.
4. Building tools that help operationalize and bring efficiencies to design activities.
5. Prototyping user experiences to the fidelity required to gain insight in user testing.
6. Helping to assess the technical impact of design decisions, and insuring less impactful options that can achieve the same design intent are considered.
7. Providing in-browser proof of concept.
8. Ensuring that designs and the code which manifests them provide progressive enhancement and accessibility affordances for all users.

https://blog.prototypr.io/design-technologists-front-end-development-in-the-design-system-era-5b0f1fa7b3de