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Why Outsource Design Team?
Is always better, than in-house specialists for certain business models
There are a lot of things you can never give on outsource: marketing, analytics, financial processes, even good clients success management. But design, as well as development, never were on the list. All design studios work as outsource specialists for businesses: just in a smaller or bigger perspective. And there are few reasons why choosing outsourced teams is an only good option for certain companies.
Who should work with outsource design teams?
If you have a complicated product, that always needs to be designed sprint by sprint, analyzed and then designed again you probably would economy a lot on having an in-house designer. However, do you have an art director and product designer onboard as well? A solo designer will hardly deal with all tasks for the product design. As well as without art-direction, your product design risks becoming very subjective and outdated too soon.
You may hire an in-house designer instead of outsourcing team if you:
- have an art-director, who will be controlling the quality of the design. Neither PM nor team lead can handle this. And even if you are sure you’ve hired 100% specialist in the design, there is still a human factor. Designs should be checked. Preferably by at least 1 (better 2) designers before the launch.
- have a lot of in-house tasks: creating ads design, working on the platform design, launching new landing pages. For example a big corporation can work perfectly with in-house designers, as they always have a lot of work to offer for the in-house design team.
- work with in-door specialists only — if you have decided to hire in-door specialists only, hiring a designer as well would also be great. However, if at least one of the departments are working based the outsource model, having an in-door designer can hardly make sense.
What are the benefits of the outsource design team?
Outsource seems to be too expensive and hard to trust for clients, but let’s take a look at the situation.
