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by lmartel 4307 days ago
The point about challenges over tweaks is great, but I don't understand the headline.

From the green button example:

> A great designer can change the UI elements on a Photoshop document in about an hour. You have a one-hour meeting to provide feedback. Three days to produce changes.

How does he get from two hours to three days? An hour for the mockup, an hour for the meeting... and 22 more for changing the css?

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Thanks for the comment. The estimation is for a series of feedback items which is fairly common for those types of sittings. In general you can expect a 3 day churn.
>Multiply that by how many team members involved in the meeting

Are you multiplying the full three days by the number of people in the meeting or are you just multiplying the hour of meeting by everyone in the meeting? The 4300 figure would be 100 hours or 3 days for 4 people. Even if there are a few changes, it sounds more like 4 people talking about changes and one person making them, which even with 3 days of changes would only be $1200. The other 3 people can work on other things during those 3 days.