Matt Davies, of Fadtastic, published an interesting interview with some well-respected interactive designers (all female) asking the question: “Where are all the female designers?” In this article Matt asks us series of 5 questions such as why do we think there are less female designers than male and is a stigma associated with females within the industry?
The following designers participated in this interview:
An excerpt:
It is a fact that there are less women in the design industry then men. What the precise ratio of men to women actually is, one cannot be sure. However, as some indication, the guys at A List Apart recently undertook a web design survey in which, in their own words, “Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.”. Out of those 33,000 only 16.1% were female.
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1. Nathan Golden… | December 18th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
As a designer/program director at a web design company, I find that more and more of my clients are requesting female designers for their sites. Just yesterday, a gentleman gave the typical reason I hear for requesting a female designer (they do a better job with feeling the site, they have an eye for form and color, etc., etc.
I’m a guy and I guess I’m supposed to be somewhat protective of my gender and our abilities, but I have to agree with my client.