Everyone these days is a web designer. You don’t have to know anything about graphic design in order to be a web designer: you could be an interface designer, a web director, a project manager, a creative director, a webmaster, a web consumer. You can even be a writer, content strategist, and information architect like I am. Either way, any person that has an impact on design online is a web designer.

As web design is so ubiquitous, then Zeldman’s question is very poignant:

If web design makes the new information age possible — if it creates new markets and new products, generates significant global cash flow, changes the way companies and non-profits interact with the public, and employs untold legions of specialists — why, until now, hasn’t anybody tried to find out more about it as an industry?

In that spirit, the ALA Web Design Survey is a wonderful idea to get a pulse on the domain of web design as it stands today. I took the survey, and encourage you to do the same. You could win some great prizes, but most of all, it will help build a good look at who exactly is doing web design today. I’m looking forward to seeing the results. Take the survey now.