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The skills are critical for any front-end designer, not just the ones in startups. Companies that embrace skilled designers as their culture compete much bette
by mikx 15y ago
The skills are critical for any front-end designer, not just the ones in startups. Companies that embrace skilled designers as their culture compete much better than others.
- niekmaas 15y agoThe word "startup" has almost reached the status of buzzword. "Cloud based startup" would have been even better..
- ssharp 15y agoThe use of "startup" along Amazon Associate links with very little value-add makes this page seem spammy.
- stylejam 15y agoHi, there are no Amazon Associate links: the only one Amazon Associate link I can think about is with Flanagan's book, and Mr. Flanagan is the associate, not me. I just thought removing it wouldn't have been polite. When I could link the book's website, I did it.
- stylejam 15y agoOne of the topics I cover the most there is the difference between startups and agencies/freelancing. While startups tend to look at results (the ones that survive), agencies tend to look at the customer, at least most of them. I actually believe that most designers coming from an agency would be eaten alive in a startup, along with their "photoshop skills". This people don't even know what UX means, never conducted a usability test (usability = I look at the website and say what I think), and definitely don't read HN.
- stylejam 15y agoShould be critical, yes. But if you know the market, you know that things like usability or ux are used 90% of times as buzzwords from sellers. I'm afraid I can't disclose some of my experiences with top design agencies in both the US and Italy, but trust me, I've got a truckload of horror stories :)