What do startups/founders look for in designers?

  • The art-psychology on your site is really similar to what I see in designers for startups. I can see why you'd wonder.

    - Good is bad / bad is good / value is best understood deeply, not in a shallow way

    - Relations & roles are not set in stone; why should they be?

    - Driven-enough by personal values to decide in a mature way whether they are a match or not

    - Able to nurture a new vibe without fearing what it will turn into, etc.

    - "Medium-sized" kind of sounds lame to them tbh

    Startups are so variable in all kinds of ways...Good luck with wherever your career takes you.

  • At that point in a startup’s lifecycle it’s all about hard skills all the way. Hard skills and culture. Everything else can be taught.