Teamwork- October Professionalism Blog.

So you are sitting there at your computer coding, photoshopping, blogging ect… So why in the world would you need to care about teamwork? Web design is a loner type of gig right? I mean that is why you wanted to take the course right? Flip on your PC, plug-in your headphones and drift away right?

NOPE… Unless you want to be a freelance Maverick that works from your house or something you are definitely going to need to learn how to work with other people in the web design world. I am currently an intern at Back40 design group in Edmond Oklahoma and one of the coolest things I have learned is how a real design firm manages their workforce. There are front end designers, back-end designers, code fixers, CSS writers, content writers, and although they all sit together in the same large room (mostly plugged into their computer), they HAVE to interact as a team daily to get hings done.

They have multiple clients at a time and while one web site may just be starting out working on the design and content; one may be working on getting out the code bugs or CSS so it is vital that they are able to communicate with one another because one task usually depends on another and sometimes depending on how busy they are or what stage most of their sites are, they have to switch roles with someone to help pick up the slack and get caught up again.

This leads me to my favorite job which is held by Reyna Wilcox at Back 40; project management. She is in charge of finding out what the client wants for their site, how they want it presented, and organizing it for each web specialist THEN seeing if the client needs MORE changes and how to communicate THAT to the right designer. She is the QUEEN of teamwork!

If one person did an entire site from start to finish then teamwork wouldn’t be needed at all BUT as I said; in order to be able to help as many clients as possible they have to all work together. Kind of like bees all gathering honey for the hive; yes they go out on their own to get it but they all meet back up and have to put it in the comb together in order for the hive to prosper.