Homework #6

Article:

RFPs: The Least Creative Way to Hire People

The article explained to me the fact that there is no great way to have bids on how to hire someone. This was explained to me by using the high school scene. You got invited to an exclusive party, but it was just a competition between people. For the creative industry and even government agencies make this the standard of hiring people and it is even required. This is the leave creative way to hire people by far. When doing an RFPs, (Request For Proposal) they can be a hassle and can do more harm than help. When writing a proposal, you take time, which costs money. In turn, you must charge the client more for the work you do for them. The author says this about RFPs: "Our team is made up of designers, developers, and strategists. We heavily rely on our proposals to perform “show and tell” for us when we can’t in person. We spend a lot of time honing our language, articulating our solutions, and actually making the proposals themselves beautiful. In fact, we spent several months overhauling all of our document styles to maximize readability, consistency, and adherence to our brand." In the end, this process can do great things for you, and help you make a ton of money, or it can hinder your business and use up a lot of time.

Guest Speaker: Brother Memmott

Brother Memmott is a Graphic Design teacher here on campus, but he not only deals with graphic design in print, he works with web, motion, and even 3D graphic design. When he was explaining the importance of not only knowing your specialty, but knowing a bit about everyone's duties on the team. If you are a designer, you should know somewhat about the developing aspect. If you are a developer, you should know a bit about designing. As a team, you don't just focus on your occupation. You help each other out and give suggestions to make your project a success. He explained to us how graphic design is so important for the design part of the web design and develop process because you have to know what is aesthetically pleasing and what is not as catchy.