What is a "Product Designer," now?

Over at SVA's MFA in Products of Design, department chair (and Core77 partner) Allan Chochinov breaks down the contemporary meanings of the job title "Product Designer"—tracing its roots from physical product design to digital product design to a kind of integrative product design. We know that it's an aggravation for industrial designers to have "lost" the shorthand of "product designer" to the interaction world, but Chochinov addresses this head-on, along with other changes in what...