I don't think it's meaningful at the short of a sampling. I suspect that there will be a upto quarter lag before some sectors will be show hit. Many companies have already allocated budgets for new hires, which can be a lengthy process, and the ball is in motion regardless of the financial meltdown this last week. In addition, not every company was devastated. Solid businesses with solid savings/investments aren't particularly limited by the credit crunch as those who rely upon credit.
In times of duress, while shopping may be less, people will be out for a deal, so it's concievable volume will be higher for lower price escapism, like video games, beer, soda etc. Also for some sectors there will be an increased focus on making products better than the competition in order to survive, so I think that the total UxD market will be relatively unaffected, though as others have said I expect the distribution to shift to the freelancers from the big corps, and that the titles will be in flux more towards the general 'designer programmer' role again. There are only so many ways to build great software but the paths can be mysteries. Even today what people ask for isn't what they really want, or need. Like technically I'm a Flash programmer/architect/manager, but in meetings what people really want is the role of IA, UxD, UcD, but there isn't enough business to have one on fulltime. Troy. On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Anjali Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very interesting discussion here. > > For someone who has been freelancing in the areas of UXD/ product strategy > for the past few years, I notice a little oddity in the market these days: > contrary to my expectation, given the dismal market sentiment, I see way too > many openings for full time UX folk, than for freelance. Things may change > as the bad news just keeps coming. > > Anyone else notice this? > -Anjali > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > > ________________________________________________________________ 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
