We expect to spend about $15-$20k, to start, and I'll be doing all of the heavy lifting of hooking things up--we just want to get HTML/CSS mockups done, with no actual work on integrating the style into our application or website. But we have a lot of stuff in our app. Heavy use of forms, vast swaths of information spread across hundreds of pages, etc. But then again, the pool of talent that we're wanting to work with is pretty much limited "famously good". If we're going to pay for it, we figure it might as well be as good as we can get. I've gotten much better over the past two years, as I've focused more on design and less on software development...so if we're going to pay rather than just let me tinker with it more, it's gotta be great.
Re:How valuable are designers to a startup team?
by heri on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @02:59PM
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but $60/hour is meaningless, at least for me. how much time is needed to design a web app, say like reddit.com?
Re:How valuable are designers to a startup team?
by SwellJoe on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @12:19AM
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An app like Reddit? Are you sure yours is that simple? Probably $2.5-$10k for someone really good.
Decent? $30/hour.
Good? $60/hour
Great? Whatever they want to charge.
http://programmermeetdesigner.com/ is a good place to get bids for a design. I got bids for a logo ranging from $25 - $600.