TX-JRN /// NOTES ON HIRING 10 ENTRIES
How to hire an independent without wasting six weeks. Rates, briefs, contracts and sequencing, written for the person doing the hiring.
The best designer for your project is frequently not available, and a portfolio tells you nothing about that. Start from the calendar and work backwards.
A day rate is not a salary divided by 220. Here is what is actually inside the number on the card, and which parts of it are negotiable.
Most briefs describe a feeling. A quotable brief describes a decision, a deadline, and who is allowed to say no.
Most freelance contracts are long in the places that never come up and silent in the places that do. These are the four that decide what happens when something goes wrong.
Not a pitch for either. The real differences are coordination cost, continuity risk, and who absorbs the mistake.
A relaunch plan built from an ideal sequence collides with reality in week one. Build it from the calendar you can actually book instead.
A case study is a marketing document about a marketing document. Here is how to read one for the information it is not trying to give you.
Good freelancers turn down work from slow payers, quietly and without telling you why. Fast payment buys access to people money cannot otherwise reach.
The components are the cheap part. What you are actually buying is adoption, and adoption is a governance problem with a design system attached.
Research is not a phase you always buy. It is what you buy when the team has run out of opinions, or has too many.