04 October, 2017

Reality Check — Dorian Taylor

Reality Check — Dorian Taylor:



Here's a sketch of a contrived UX-heavy Web development team, idealized in terms of every subspecies of UX specialist having a job:



  1.  Some kind of strategist/lead/architect/grand poobah, to be the principal contact with clients and the first and last word on design, 
  2. A project manager, who is not a designer, to deal with people, resources and schedules, 
  3. A user research, testing, and analytics person, 
  4. An interaction designer, 
  5. An information architect, 
  6. A content strategist, 
  7. A visual designer, 
  8. A front-end developer, 
  9. A back-end developer, 
  10. A software tester, 
  11. A system administrator, 
  12. Juniors, interns and internettes. 
Okay, the care and feeding of that troupe is going to be well over a million bucks a year. And that's not counting gear, office space, support staff, marketing, biz dev, etc. A team like that is going to have to complete a six-figure job every month just to keep the lights on.
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