“We have two designers, two front-end developers, 2 back-end developers, and a tester.”<p>I'd say there's a difference between a label and a job specification. If you get to choose your own title, it's meaningless.<p>You tend to specialize in that which you do for your 8+ hours a day. I personally wouldn't call someone a front-end developer unless they are very specialized (to the degree that they understand the internals and are writing custom controls for the stack).<p>This doesn't imply that someone can't be specialized in multiple fields - in the end you are just fulfilling a specific role. I personally believe a team works well when everyone is capable of doing most things (from doing front-end dev, back-end dev to gathering requirements and communicating with the client) and then having specializations.