The company that I was the UX A for 2.5 years may have not been the norm - but in the software engineering group - 55-60 people, the breakdown was something like this 55% women 45% men
Tech leads 3 men, 2 women Ethnicity: 35% White (Euro ancestry - including eastern European Jewish and Russian backgrounds) 20% Chinese 25-30% Indian 5% African American 5-10% Other Asian, Middle Eastern On Jan 30, 2008 3:17 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Meredith Noble wrote: > > > Would love to hear some stats if people have them, as I get asked this > > question all the time and Dave's comment makes me worry I'm giving the > > wrong answer! > > When I was running the design team at Adobe, I had ~66% women on the > team to ~33% men, out of a 16 to 24 person team. My sense is that > today that ratio is still pretty strong at Adobe, but someone on the > team today would have to answer that. My experiences have been that > women are more strongly represented in the field if you approach the > field from a non-HCI perspective, including more traditional design > backgrounds as prerequisites. If hiring for the job from an HCI and > CompSci approach, it does seem to yield more men, except when you > include Asian countries, where women are becoming more strongly > represented in those fields. > > Just anecdotal data I know. And please take it with a large grain of > salt. > > -- > 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 > -- ~ will "No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it." Alan Cooper - "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" ------------------------------------------------------- will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ *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
