[Sigia-l] How to evaluate your team of interaction designers?

[Welie, Martijn van]

Hi,

I am a teamleader of a team of 4 interaction designers, 2 being junior and 2
being senior. Soon I will have to hold the mandatory job evaluations (or
some call it 'appraisals'). I would like to do this in a structured way and
I am thinking of criteria on which to judge my people. I would appreciate
any input that people on this list could give.

So far I have come up with:

Functioning in teams and projects


Involvement in projects
-	Flexibility
-	Cooperation	
-	Effectivity	
-	Efficiency	
-	Attitude	
 
Leadership and design management within team
-	Proactiveness	
-	Communication	
-	Planning and processes	
-	Guidance	

Cooperation with other competences
-	Flash	
-	Art	
-	Tech	
-	Consultancy	
-	PM/Sales	
 
Knowledge and expertise

Expertise in specific domains
-	General web design	
-	Campaign design	
-	(web) Application design	
-	Mobile design	
-	TV applications	
-	Classical GUI design	

Level of conceptual thinking
-	Problem solving	
-	Separation of concerns	
-	Dealing with business issues & other constraints	

Tracking trends, research and other knowledge developments
-	Tracking 	
-	Contributing	

Skills regarding
-	User analysis	
-	Concept definition	
-	Evaluations (Usability testing, expert reviews)	
-	Information Architecture	
-	Copy writing	
-	Writing and documenting	
-	Presenting work	
-	Sales support & project scoping	
-	Use of tools	

Knowledge of related fields
-	Usability & design theory	
-	Visual design	
-	Internet technologies (HTML, Flash, CMS etc)	
-	Site usage analysis	
-	Business principles	
-	Marketing principles	


Martijn van Welie
Satama Interactive