[davismwfl]

Frankly if you are smaller and working on a tighter budget, I'd get someone that can be a jack of all trades. Not saying that having an expert in each area wouldn't be awesome, but it doesn't come without its headaches. If you are small < ~10 people, having more than 1 designer is a bad idea in my experience. If you hire really good people you will wind up with delays while they either A) collaborate or B) battle over who is right. It is better in the early stages to move faster and have one vision on design that is done in collaboration with the other users.

So instead I say go with one good designer for now, you can always add more later, but remember, hire slow, fire fast.

If you are interested, I know of someone who is really good and amazing at collaborating with the team. As far as I know, he only works remote, but if you even want to talk to him about what to ask or look for, it may be worth your while. You can shoot me an email (in profile) if you have any interest.