Thriving as an inhouse web designer

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An area of the web world that doesn't get a lot of love at conferences is the challenges and benefits of being a designer inside a non-design type organisation.

How do you develop your career if you are the only designer in a company? How do you convince the internal staff to support your ideas of modern web design and tools?

I've worked in several inhouse roles, and I always found plenty of other inhouse designers at conferences, but not a lot of recognition from the podium. That's why I started http://designersinhouse.com

Web Directions certainly has enough corporate / government / charity people who would be like me, and I'd love to develop this presentation.

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Having worked in this role in a past life, I would love to see how folks now get over the problems I used to have.

I really like this one too! How many of you are there out there?

Hey Mathew,

I'd be very interested in what you had to say?

Am currently working two days a week for the Department of Health and have faced a lot of the issues you plan to address.

We all need help in finding ways to shift the average workplace into adopting new technologies.

Cheers,
Dannielle Chun

Puts hand up, no quite lone I have a part time web designer and systems/network person who knows his way round PHP and databases when I can get him away from his other work.

But the front end developer is just me.

Over my career I've been the sole web guy in an ISP, a regional newspaper and city council, so I'd be interested in this one too.

I'd be interested in hearing their experiences and work methods just to see how it differs from those of us that work in design companies.

Good idea. I'm also interested in others' thoughts on whether this role will thrive or flounder in the GFC environment.

I've worked inhouse as a designer for a film company and now a local council and would also like to see this topic addressed.

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