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
