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Back at the office, there’s an ongoing, pervasive, vigorous, conversation about my team’s role. In a broad sense, it’s about how design technologists can best contribute in a design firm. Expectedly and reasonably, we often end up talking about how billable my team members are.
I am far from alone. Just about everyone I know in the industry who’s in a similar role is deeply involved in their own firm’s internal dialogues. Are design technologists most valuable doing project work, or when given some space to research and develop? And how much of what they do should be “support” versus “production”?