How You Know it’s Time to Hire a Designer

28 Sep 2009

After 5 years in business, Room 214 is finally ready to hire a full time interactive designer. Ever loving the “punch list” – here is my take on how you know the time is right: All your subs are too busy to start anything within 2-3 weeks. This is my favorite: Your best subs are thinking they’ll leverage the design work they’ve done for you to start a new social media agency The few people you have inhouse that can actually do some design don’t have time to do any design. Your developers are complaining “there is nobody to design this.” Your account managers are asking “who should we give this to design?” Each new project signed or in the pipeline seems to have associated design work Your list of design-related work is growing You are unafraid of a designer running out of things to do (this especially holds true if you get…

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