So you have an entrepreneurial idea. Maybe it’s in production but needs improvement or perhaps it’s not yet ready for launch… The fact is your idea matters and it needs to be built. You could hire an agency, but that’s expensive – you could find a freelancer, but which option is best? Where do you find qualified leads? How do you approach your prospects? Make the hire? Manage & <hopefully not> fire?
I will be talking about the best ways to find, hire, manage and even fire designers and developers in the wild-wild-west of the webernets. I will be speaking from both sides of the aisle as I am a designer/developer that has been hired to work on various projects, and I’ve managed projects driven by agencies and freelancers alike. It truly is the wild-wild-west, so let’s go gold diggin’ together.
Jason is the Sr. UI/UX Designer at Freightview, an app incubated from within Freightquote. Prior to working at Freightview, Jason was a consultant who had the opportunity to work with clients like The Kauffman Foundation, Space Center Houston, TD Bank, and Aviation Schools Online.
TL;DR
Freightquote is the largest online U.S. freight shipping provider delivering solutions that enable customers to instantly quote and compare freight rates for hundreds of U.S. carriers. With more than 1,400 employees nationwide and annualized revenues exceeding $900 million, they move more than one million shipments across North America per year.
Freightview is a new idea that launched April 21, 2014. It is a web app that connects to your carriers and brokers to retrieve your rates so you don’t have to run quotes on multiple websites (the “kayak.com” of the freight industry). It also has a full suite of features including: compare your rates, schedule pickups, print bills of lading, print shipping labels, track your shipments, unified address book, multiple users and shipment history (among many others).
Sessions
How to: Find, Hire & Manage Designers & Developers
Bio Info
From: Leawood, KS | dislocated from the west coast
Twitter Bio: Sr. UI UX designer & developer at freightView.com
Links: jasonw.me | @jasonw_me | freightview.com