Comments for The Apprentice Path

Comment on Why do we have a shortage of designers? by Yingying

Yingying — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:27:28 +0000

Thank you Lane! Yes, I am keep working on it, hopefully I will nail down a company who would like to sponsor me soon

Comment on Why do we have a shortage of designers? by Lane Halley

Lane Halley — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:18:42 +0000

Hi Yingying. Thanks for your comment. Sorry to hear about your difficulty getting hired because of your visa status. I have several friends who have similar problems. Keep trying! There are some employers out there willing to sponsor you, particularly in the areas outside urban centers. Hopefully the Startup Act 3.0 will pass and change the way we value talent from other countries.

Comment on Why do we have a shortage of designers? by Yingying

Yingying — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:59:41 +0000

Nice posting, I agree with you. other than what you said, I think there may be many talented non-citizen designers out there, but companies are not able to either support them with working visa, or not willing to spend extra money on this or train them to be better.

Just a personal experience: I got an offer from a small design consultancy, but they were not able to transfer my H1B working permit, so they had to rescind the offer in the end.

Comment on Balconf: Hybrid User Interviews by Lane Halley

Lane Halley — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 03:52:00 +0000

Thanks for watching the presentation, I’m glad you enjoyed it. The next Balanced Team event is in Chicago, June 22-24. I’m not planning to speak, but there should be lots of other interesting talks, and it’s a good group of people to meet. See this link for more information http://www.balancedteam.org/2012/03/03/balanced-team-chicago-2012/

Comment on Balconf: Hybrid User Interviews by Justin Moses

Justin Moses — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:25:14 +0000

This was an excellent presentation – wish I could have made it. I got to hear you speak once in Chicago and was equally impressed with how readily I could apply what I learned to my day to day work in software development.

As a side note..if you’re not already aware, you should check out a tool called Trello. It makes those collaborative, agile list making sessions easy – alllmost as easy as paper & sticky notes.

Comment on We, the makers by Brittany Hunter

Brittany Hunter — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:54:05 +0000

I’m glad you found my post helpful! I firmly believe that knowing more about the technology and the logistics of implementation makes designers better able to anticipate users’ needs and development challenges, just as you say. Having generalist teams of design-aware developers and development-aware designers leads to better products and better user experiences.

Comment on Our LSM Sketchboard by Roman Pichler

Roman Pichler — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:43:24 +0000

Great post, thanks for sharing. Nice idea to include a sketch of the ecosystem. Here are my product discovery ideas: http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/agile-product-innovation/the-product-vision-board/

Comment on Where the designers are by Samuel Bowles

Samuel Bowles — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:27:12 +0000

Great post Lane, here’s a few more places and ways to look for designers.

http://www.authenticjobs.com/
http://jobs.37signals.com/

And if you want to throw the net wide (read: expensive) you’ll get a lot of attention from designers (no guarantees it’ll be the right ones though) by advertising on The Deck ad network which has nearly cornered the market on design related blogs.

http://decknetwork.net/

Finally, if you’re looking for new entrants to the profession a good way to sort the wheat from the chaff is to offer a free workshop at a local university put on by your company. Those who show up are more passionate than those that don’t and if you structure your workshop well you get to see what they’re capable of well ahead of any interviews.

Comment on Our LSM Sketchboard by Lean Startup Machine » How SnappSchool’s Win at the last NYC Lean Startup Machine Was Only the Beginning

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:31:00 +0000

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Comment on Our LSM Sketchboard by steve

steve — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:32:31 +0000

Simply awesome. Sometimes low-tech is the best tech.

A few weeks ago we tried to reach out to the owner of a piece of real estate we were interesting in looking into.

No one could get ahold of her. Went through our contacts, a real estate broker, online directories, Google, etc.

Finally we told our adviser Michele about the problem and she responded “Oh, just call 411.”

Got it in 5 minutes.