JDP Success Story #1
Wanted to start sharing some of the positive experiences I've had over the years with a bit of success I've had with Designers;
JDP Success Story #1
From Branding Designer to now Product Design Director
About 2 years ago I worked with a freelance Designer who was super accomplished in branding and advertising - Graphic and Digital, but very much in the world of agency. He'd worked around the world and could easily walk into a very Snr Advertising Design role
But...
He wanted to get into this thing called 'UX'!
Brisbane two years ago was still quite new to really embracing this design thinking, there were no courses etc here to learn it.
This designer and I talked about what I believed UX to be, what it means to really follow a UX process and design with this in mind.
I said he really needed to show some evidence of his problem-solving and how he could take this approach to a tech company and their software design.
He went away and volunteered at a co-working space to a couple of start-ups, taking the theory he'd learned in UX and applied it to their MVP's/Apps/Software and came out from those sprints with case studies and evidence of this thinking.
Armed with that and his extensive background in Visual and Branding design - we got out there and he soon scored an offer at a Technology Co. with a small team of Product Designers and a team of Developers.
To score this role he took roughly a 20% pay cut.
Two years on and he's in a Director level role, focusing heavily on Product Design with a salary that exceeds the ceiling he was previously capped at. It took some hard, free, work, initiative and a bit of a leap of faith - but his future is looking super bright. Definitely one I'm proud to be a part of.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I'm Jared Tredly and I've been at Just Digital People since the start. I run a team of consultants here and we make it our business to work with passion and integrity! When I'm not hanging in the digital realm I pound the drums in a few Blues rock bands around Brisbane!