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I cannot imagine having a full time design job if you are not at a design agency... what would you even be doing 80% of the time?!

AmericanChopper 8y ago
If you worked in a company where I used to, you’d be designing email internal email campaigns for our staff of 50.
- mrhappyunhappy 8y ago
  Ouch.
  - AmericanChopper 8y ago
    It gets worse actually. The CEO thought he could sell his email campaign design services to our customers, and convinced one to buy some from him. So he hired another two full time designers, and then never managed to sell the service again. For a year after that we got 3-5 internal news letters per week, each with extensive bespoke illustrations, until one day we were back to having 0 full time designers.
    - anoncoward111 8y ago
      Holy shit that's crazy lol. What's really sad is the designers were most likely trying hard and greatly wanted to succeed, but one day the CEO realized just how unprofitable his decision n months ago was and summarily corrected his mistake.
      - mrhappyunhappy 8y ago
        Not to mention said designers probably had no chance for advancement and unless they learned on the job, they actually lost time to advance their own careers in places where their talent matters.
wott 8y ago
Well, why do you think we have so many re-designs (and re-structuring, and re-packaging, and re-writing, and so on)? To keep people busy and believing that they matter. You don't need to imagine, it is right here, everywhere around, in programming, in tech and in almost all other trades.
- ryandrake 8y ago
  Bingo. Software engineers, raise your hand if you’ve ever worked for company where your project had to undergo a full UI/UX overhaul with every major release. This is why. These designers have a portfolio to build up, and your software is their perpetually blank canvas!
PeterisP 8y ago
Lots of companies require enough content to need multiple full-time designers - some of them outsource it all to design agencies, some keep teams of in-house designers.
52-6F-62 8y ago
From experience working with them— you eventually get laid off and go back to contracting for the company intermittently. Or you get tasked with things like helping other teams change software suites and organizing that action through the different stakeholders. Then move into management. Yeah....

AmericanChopper 8y ago

If you worked in a company where I used to, you’d be designing email internal email campaigns for our staff of 50.

mrhappyunhappy 8y ago
Ouch.
- AmericanChopper 8y ago
  It gets worse actually. The CEO thought he could sell his email campaign design services to our customers, and convinced one to buy some from him. So he hired another two full time designers, and then never managed to sell the service again. For a year after that we got 3-5 internal news letters per week, each with extensive bespoke illustrations, until one day we were back to having 0 full time designers.
  - anoncoward111 8y ago
    Holy shit that's crazy lol. What's really sad is the designers were most likely trying hard and greatly wanted to succeed, but one day the CEO realized just how unprofitable his decision n months ago was and summarily corrected his mistake.
    - mrhappyunhappy 8y ago
      Not to mention said designers probably had no chance for advancement and unless they learned on the job, they actually lost time to advance their own careers in places where their talent matters.

wott 8y ago

Well, why do you think we have so many re-designs (and re-structuring, and re-packaging, and re-writing, and so on)? To keep people busy and believing that they matter. You don't need to imagine, it is right here, everywhere around, in programming, in tech and in almost all other trades.

ryandrake 8y ago
Bingo. Software engineers, raise your hand if you’ve ever worked for company where your project had to undergo a full UI/UX overhaul with every major release. This is why. These designers have a portfolio to build up, and your software is their perpetually blank canvas!

PeterisP 8y ago

Lots of companies require enough content to need multiple full-time designers - some of them outsource it all to design agencies, some keep teams of in-house designers.

52-6F-62 8y ago

From experience working with them— you eventually get laid off and go back to contracting for the company intermittently. Or you get tasked with things like helping other teams change software suites and organizing that action through the different stakeholders. Then move into management. Yeah....