As kind of a tangent, this does make me wonder how many businesses are simply outright based in India for design and development, versus being an outsourcing resource company featuring these skillsets. Is there some balance of cost of being outsource resources versus simply being their own software(etc) company?
And Atul's point made me wonder: couldn't India (or other major outsource centers) be markets in themselves for applications and other products which UX practice would benefit? Scott On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HFI has a unique model where a few (under 20) full time UX/IA resources work > on/off site with US clients to do research, define requirements and explore > some design solutions, but the bulk of the wireframing and ux design > (production) is actually done by ux/ia resouces in india - so client facing > work is done on site US UX professionals that than direct/manage a team of > production ux folks in india. I have seen a bit of the work product and it > seems relatively successful as a business model - but I don't know +/- > whether it works for their clients. > > My personal experience is that it is hit or miss and requires a very large > commitment to do well. We had a Bangalore office for development based on > wireframes and IxD specs for Kayak when we first started - but that didn't > work out to well. We switched to just doing code production in our bangalore > office - and that didn't work out too well either b/c it seems to benefit > most from economies of scale and commitment to communication. In another > company we had a very successful relationship with our indian office, but it > had nothing to do with UX - that was all done in the states. > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Atul N Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Our group and I work in the area of User Experience Design in the Indian >> markets. Our focus has been primarily in three areas- >> >> 1) International and Indian Products and Services offered to Indian Users >> >> 2) IT companies in India who wish to offer products and services in the >> international markets but lack UXD expertise. We also help them to >> institutionalize / train. >> >> 3) International UXD companies who wish to leverage on "offshoring" to an >> indian partner. We focus on services that may not need direct end user >> involvement in the process. >> >> I have been privately asking the following question to some of our clients >> and partners. I would appreciate your views on the same. >> I have put some blunt questions here: >> 1) What are the top benefits that have been seen while working in >> an offshore UXD partnership. >> 2) What are the top drawbacks. >> 3) What are the difficulties / benefits that a split-work scenario offer >> (UXD Onshore - Development Offshore or vice versa) >> 4) What works / does not work and why? >> >> I assume that there could be several types of relationships and layers. I >> have mentioned 3 types in which we have worked in the past, there could be >> more. Please do specify anyhting in particular about any type of >> relationship you may have noticed / experienced. >> Look forward to your response, >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Atul N Joshi >> Design Director, >> Design Incubator R&D Labs (P) Ltd, >> Mumbai - India >> info: www.designincuabtor.com >> mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ________________________________________________________________ >> 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 > > "Where you innovate, how you innovate, > and what you innovate are design problems" > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Will Evans | User Experience Architect > tel: +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > aim: semanticwill | gtalk: wkevans4 > twitter: semanticwill | skype: semanticwill > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- "The future is unwritten." - Joe Strummer ________________________________________________________________ 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
