On Oct 7, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Margaret wrote:
Designers who have these coding skills are pretty expensive. Designers without coding skills but with a solid understanding of the technologies can still help an org out in a very beneficial way, and at a lower cost than a developer/designer.
Many people in Silicon Valley get paid around $90K to $120K for being senior level "interaction" types. Many of these people can't do the two things I mentioned very well if at all. To get those skills on the project, the company would have to also hire $70K to $90K coders (not engineers, just front-end mostly web developer types) and $70K to $90K graphic designers. This is all before factoring in health care, benefits, 401K, computers, software, etc. which increases the costs significantly as well.
It should be quite clear what is more expensive. Further, it should also be noted that being someone who gets paid that much but requires multiple lesser salaried people to complete your function is not a strong position to be in. It makes you a big target when people are looking to cut costs when the lesser people are the ones with hard skills that can be used in actual shipping product.
Of the two things I mentioned, graphic design or coding, one should consider at minimum picking one of those skills and getting to an expert level with it so as not to require the business to need that extra person to be paired with them to complete their job function in times of cost cutting.
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