[IxDA Discuss] IxD Managers (was: d schools)

[Peter Boersma]

Chris wrote:
> [..] design is so much fun and spiritually satisfying that so  
> many of us hate to push it far to the side in order to take on the  
> kind of responsibilities managing a business entails.

Yeah, that's probably why, when I co-managed just 7 designers (in the management-management sense), I put in my 60 hours of management (I was still learning and felt I had to put in the hours!) and *still* kept designing for 20 hours every week...

That lasted 7 months. By then I had realized that full-time management-management wasn't my thing (yet?) and that I preferred a somewhat more designer-y role.

Now I am a senior designer, mentor of 3 designers, and only partly responsible for managing the 10-person UX department. I feel healthy :-)

Peter
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