The term industrial design is too broad

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Sometimes being broad is a good thing. It gives designers the ability to stretch into whatever space they new to get the job done.

Product manager and product developer are both existing titles in the new product development organization of most companies so that would not work.

Product architect is pretty descriptive. Architect is frequently used on the software side to describe the person who is designing the overal system.

At this point changing the title is going to be swimming up stream. It is better to focus energies on actually doing good design. Be thankful you have a profession interesting enough to be worth explaining

Very good points, but product management and development could be jobs an IDer can get, or is it outside the realm of ID?

Also when describing ID, is it legit to say that they could be involved throughout the making of a product from design to production, manufacturing, development and marketing?