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Honestly, my best advice on hiring a UX/UI person at the sort of stage you sound to be at is “don’t”. Get a frontend developer with an eye for design instead -
by jon-wood 6y ago
Honestly, my best advice on hiring a UX/UI person at the sort of stage you sound to be at is “don’t”. Get a frontend developer with an eye for design instead - hiring someone in a UX specialism too early will just result in a lot of unactionable reports being generated because the people actually able to implement anything are already busy building other things.
The only exception I’d make here is if your UX person is able to implement their suggestions themselves, without dragging people away from other work.
- pembrook 6y agoThis advice depends on what you’re actually building and where you’re needing design help. If it’s a Saas product and you aren’t able to close leads due to a lack of product features, then sure, don’t hire someone to design what you already don’t have the resources to build. However, I doubt this is OP’s problem. I’m guessing they already have some traction, and are having customer complaints about the general usability or are losing to more polished competitors. In this case, it’s stupid not to bring in specialist design help. Hiring more construction workers to work on a poorly architected building won’t suddenly make it more appealing to tenants. If the architecture is the problem, hire an architect!
- mepiethree 6y agowe are indeed the latter case! We are B2B and have a good amount of clients for one of our services but for others we just have to deliver reports with screenshots of our tool since it's a pain in the ass to work with. 12 engineers but no one with any training on how to make things intuitive and delightful. Probably planning to contract with a UX person but flying blind on what skills to look for