Seems that it should be at least 50/50 designers/developers per project, no matter how many you have in the company. With huge back-end projects, the ratio could drop, as well as toward the end of a project (it depends, as long as the designers who were there, got their point across)
Ultimately, I'd rather have just one designer at the start of a project than have to throw 50 at the end of one. Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Billie Mandel Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:18 PM To: IxDA Discuss Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Ratio of designers to developers Hey fab folks - So I was at dinner the other night with the technical publications manager here at my company, and he mentioned that the STC had stats on how many documentation people a software company should have per software developer, in order for the tech pubs team to be optimally effective. Do we have anything like that for designers? Anyone done any work determining what the relative size of the design team to the dev team should be overall for a software dev shop? (Yes, I know, "it depends," but a ratio range would certainly be useful) Thanks in advance (you'll be helping me build my empire and take over the world, of course) Cheers, - Billie * * * * * * * Billie Mandel | Manager, User Experience Design & Research | OPENWAVE ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
