Designer in Residence, Bessemer
Former Lead Designer, mint.com
Creator of Capitol Circle & elegant.ly
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Steve Jobs on brands.
Five Simple Steps has a really great collection of design books, both PDF, and hardcopy.
I don’t track statistics on responses yet, but it’s a feature I’ll be adding. Anecdotally I’m hearing good things and many thanks from entrepreneurs.
I do not filter the designers contacting you, all of our members are free to do so directly via the email address or link you provided.
I make no guarantee that your pitch will compel someone to respond, so you should activate every possible option you can to fill your candidate pipeline. Recruiting is tough! Expect to spend a lot of time on it!
Thanks and good luck!
Yes! However you filled out the ‘Contact Email or Link to Job Application’ field, is how one would contact you.
Why are shows bad? Shouldn’t we reward good design? Sure, if that’s what the shows accomplish, but they don’t. In fact, I believe they do harm to the profession. They reward the visible parts - styling - and ignore the most important, but hardest parts: interaction, experience, truly meeting needs, and even economic success.
I taught myself a lot outside of school with books, and practice. I started when I was 8, I was lucky and had parents who bought an IBM PC for home. I taught myself programming, and gained an early computer science foundation. I started building websites after that, and became slowly better at graphic design simply out of necessity. My partner in my design firm Novaurora, Miche Capone, was a classically trained artist, and really pushed my aesthetic sense forward once I made the web my full-time profession.
The skills I brought to Mint were the ability to turn problems into solutions, visually, and interactively. I expressed that through sketches, wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and ultimately HTML/CSS markup. I also carried with me a lot of the marketing and brand studying I did while I was running a creative agency, and doing this type of work for clients. It helped me create a great brand for the company. Writing is also a critical skill in design and crafting brand voice.
Sounds cool. Definitely pitch on elegant.ly — the new system should work well for you.