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I just want you to know: You're not alone. I worked at a company that had a similar experience with a highly regarded web design firm. Only difference is we did
by spamizbad 4y ago
I just want you to know: You're not alone. I worked at a company that had a similar experience with a highly regarded web design firm. Only difference is we did our own implementation from their designs. Working with them as an IC was even worse because they knew I wasn't the one signing their checks.
Some anecdotes:
* their new designs actually made our metrics WORSE.
* Some of their design work didn't cleanly translate to responsive web code very well, so I wanted time with one of their designers and try and come up with some quick solutions to try an adapt it to something you can actually implement. Web design firm didn't like this and we were forced to play a game of telephone between a project manager... which as you can imagine racked up a bunch of billable hours.
- mtlynch 4y agoThanks for reading! >Only difference is we did our own implementation from their designs. Working with them as an IC was even worse because they knew I wasn't the one signing their checks. Oh, that makes me feel a little better about letting the agency take on the dev work instead of doing it in-house like I'd originally planned. I feared that there'd be a lot of miscommunication and confusion if my company's dev team had to resolve design issues with the external agency's designers. From your experience, it sounds like I was right to worry.