Over the last 5 years here is the breakdown from my experience: Kayak.com 1 IA/IxD (me) 4 engineers Gather.com 1 IA/IxD (me) 1 visual designer, 3 engineers AIR Worldwide 1 IA/IxD (me) 55 engineers (and 4 major product lines) - [no visual designer, no usability] Current 1 IA/IxD (me) 2.5 full time engineers
Totally anecdotal - but for small start-ups - 1:4 ratio seems to be great, AIR didn't believe in user experience or design - so I thought they were an outlier - but given what I have seen so far posted - maybe that is more the norm -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" ------------------------------------------------------- will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- On Jan 22, 2008 4:19 PM, Jeff White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My situation is: 3 designers - we do UCD research (what is UCD anyway? > Kidding, KIDDING!) interaction & visual design, and we don't write any > code at all. The rest of our IT shop is about 70 strong - that > includes front and back end engineers and database admins. > > Jeff > > ________________________________________________________________ *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
