Our application software company's interaction design team size would be, um, one. That's also our visual design team size. Oh, and it's the same one, and he codes a bit in his spare time. Pleased to meet you :-)
It's not all stand-alone work though. When we're mapping out something new, I'll form a small internal design team that includes business, architecture, and technology people. Design teams tend to be project-specific, which works out well for the engineers 'cause they get sort of itchy in design meetings. I do think sometimes about what sort of designer I would bring in if we ever doubled our team size to (gasp!) two. By necessity he or she would be another polymath, ideally with some serious research chops (not my strength), an informed interaction design background, an understanding of graphic design, and professional technical skills that include some ability to traverse the nether coding regions of software products. Michael Micheletti On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Lindsey Berdan <[email protected]>wrote: > I am one of two interaction designers at a hardware company, and am > curious about the interaction design teams who work at software > companies and develop application software. What are the average > team sizes for the development of the User Interface and > Interactions? > > Thanks, > Lindsey. > -- Michael Micheletti [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
