Buying Design & Working With Designers
How to choose, brief and collaborate with designers and design partners as a business decision, not a vanity spend.
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Good for: founders, PMs, CTOs and heads of product deciding who to hire, what to outsource and how to structure UX work.
Design RFPs have a reputation — and not a flattering one. Speaking as someone who’s spent years inside big design teams and consulting for large product organisations, I can say this bluntly: most RFPs are a mess. They reveal more about a company’s internal politics than their actual design goals.They’re often contradictory, stuffed with self-important…
This post is a reflection of my experience working as a UX consultant and Creative Director for a large, well-known product team — big budget, big ambitions, and genuinely talented people. I liked the work, respected the team, but saw firsthand how the “all-in-one” temptation leads to scattered focus and diluted impact. This isn’t armchair…
