On Jan 22, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Nasir Barday wrote: > - Consulting firms > - Internal design teams
My estimate, fwiw, doesn't matter if its for an internal team or external team. My experience tells me that the best ratio regardless is somewhere around 1 designer for every 4 to 6 engineers. Also, if you do the visual/interaction split on the team, the you effectively have 1.5 designers to figure out the numbers. The 1 visual plus 1 interaction designer doesn't equate to 2 people's worth of work in the same way 2 designers who can do both the visual and interaction design simultaneously. Practically speaking, the volume of work that either a designer generates that needs to be built, or the volume of design that needs to be created from the amount built by the engineers works out to this ratio. Approximately speaking. I can't imagine how a team of 3 designers can practically work with a team of 50 engineers. It would either the designers are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of what needs to spec'd and designed, or the engineers are sitting around creating their own design if there is a lack of work spec'd out, or both. Also, as another rough estimate, I treat needing 1 researcher per 3 to 5 designers on a team. If you have a team of 10 designers, you're going to need around 2 to 3 researchers to adequately cover the spread of information needed to be gathered and researched effectively. Again, this is an approximation, but I think it holds up well enough for budgeting and planning purposes. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] c. +1 408 306 6422 ________________________________________________________________ *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
