To clarify: I did come from Crate. All designers here are way better than me in many ways. You could say we all have design chops. I'm not a creative director. I'm a designer. I prefer to be called an employee (only). Ryan and Jason still design. They are intimately involved in all design. Scott Upton, Jason Zimdars, and Jonas Downey are also part of the design team. They are all very awesome.
Cool, sounds like a fun gang. I didn't say anyone's not awesome, just that each is different and that the natural variation in types of skills also seems to carry over to sketching styles.
Trello and Asana are free (last time I checked). It'll be hard to make money from people using their apps for free. No money = no app improvement. IMHO.
It's fine, but I didn't really read it that way. It probably doesn't help that this place leans to a strong "business guy = moronic jackass" mentality. I'm sure that led to some assumptions on my part.
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Let me add, that other than the comment I commented on, I really enjoyed the series. There was a lot of creative ideas to test that extended well beyond the usually published A/B test results that test fairly mundane changes, like the color of a button.
"Also to note, I often find that radical new variant designs for well established clients have rapidly diminishing returns."
I totally agree. However, this is a marketing site that "established clients" probably won't be visiting often. Once they've signed up the site has done its job right?
