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Create MVP (Minimum Viable Portfolio)
Every designer must have both types of portfolios: short-form to get attention and long-form to showcase details.
Campfire #35: How to use chat GPT as a freelance product designer?
This is how AI might be used to assist designers and freelancers in their workflows.
Establish the client-finding process
Finding clients as a freelancer can be tricky, but a structured process can make it easier and more efficient.
Campfire #34: Three tips for presenting design work during an interview
The difference between getting the job or not, has everything to do with how you present your work to potential clients.
How to work with designers (a PMs guide)
Product designers spend a lot of time working closely with product managers. Both roles are highly critical parts of the product development process. Yet many PMs need help understanding designers and efficiently working with them.
How to use fundamental human needs to create a better design?
Fulfilling each step of the hierarchy of needs requires applying logic to create a product that meets the functional priorities of its purpose. Aside from that, it's also about investigating how a product may work for a user outside of its core purpose.
How to craft the offer?
Your offer is what you pitch to companies. Going to a prospective lead and saying, “I’ll design a landing page for you,” will not get you much business. You need to tell them what you’re going to do and why it will get results.
Conducting a user research
We don’t have time to learn about our actual users and maximize the chances of success. We're assuming that we know what they want and then wonder why the product fails at a later stage.
Hate sales conversations? This framework might work for you
Selling your services as a product designer is a skill that most creatives don’t want to develop and usually see as a cringe-worthy task.
No followers? No problems.
You don’t need a lot of followers to land your first client. Check out this step-by-step guide that helped me get clients without followers and grow my business to 6 figures.
