konnexus

You want it fast, cheap and great? That's impossible utopia.

For this and all other cases Colin Harman made a great vizualizaition:

There is just one thing, that I can add: these rules are for all design, not only graphic design. It is what we experience in UX Design as well. The factor that you can adjust, though, is the efficiancy and effectiveness of your organization. And then there is also the open source thing ... but that's a different story.