Numiko studio visit:

Numiko studio visit

Me and two other students went to Numikos studio, for me, to get an idea of how a studio functions.

We was given a tour by a guy named Colin,

The studio has employed 20 designers, but on this day it only seemed as if around 10 of them were in.

I was surprised how personal and informal the studio was, with the designers having their own personal items on their desks such as lego toys and other novelty items.

We were talked through their Water Aid's Wahoo project and fully explained how the did the entire site, from initial meetings, to budget etc. We were shows the site mocked up in creative adobe software as well as seeing the wire frames. Colin was telling us how the company provided them with the photographs and stock images to use and also a very basic logo which wasn't designed very professionally and a result of this meant that when the logo was opened in software, it was over 50GB in size; this obviously had to be corrected.

We went into the ins and outs of the company and other designers came over to explain things to us, the studio was very laid back and everyone was very friendly and sociable.

We were informed that the junior designers were paid £23,000 a year, a number which impressed me and a figure I would be very happy earning as a graduate job at the age of 21. Colin had told us that

 he didn't go to uni and started design work at age 16.

He compared Numiko to other such companies in Leeds such as 26 and Made by Pie, claiming the industry 26 was  a lot more formal and intensive that Numiko and that the workers there fit more of a 'Mac monkey' role. 

He explained to us how the company had just won a pitch to redesign the Blue cross charity website and that's what they were all working on at that time. They approached the company proposing a new site mapping that would completely change the ease of the site.

We were told how in the last few years internet on phones has massively grown and how that is certain people's only access to the internet are via mobile devices.

We were shown quite a lot of information about web design and wire frames something which relates to our on going project.