Hiring the Right Designer

This worksheet is a companion to Hiring the Right Designer: A Concise Guide for Assessing Your Needs. Please refer to the guide to complete this worksheet.

Use this worksheet to follow these steps:

1. Articulate your needs for hiring designers
2. Assess the context, the design effort, and the designer role
3. Start a conversation with Centre of Expertise for Human-Centred Design

1.1 What’s the current state of work?

  Pre-planning
  Planning
  Design
  Implementation
  Post-launch

1.2 How’s the schedule?

  Don't Know
  Tight
  Moderate
  Loose
  Flexible

1.3 What’s your budget?

  Don't Know
  Small
  Moderate
  Big
  Flexible

1.4 How complex is the work?

  Don't Know
  Obvious
  Complicated
  Complex
  Wicked

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2.1 What do you need a designer for?

  Don't Know
  User Interface Design (UI)
  User Experience Design (UX)
  Client/Customer Experience Design (CX)
  Service Design

2.2 What exactly do you need the designer to do? (Choose all that apply)

  Inform
  Define
  Create
  Improve
  Test

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3.1 What designer roles do you need? (Choose all that apply)

  Design Manager
  Design Researcher
  Design Strategist
  Design Writer
  Service Designer
  UI Designer
  UX Designer

3.2 Which designer profile fits your needs best?

  Junior Tactical Specialist
  Senior Tactical Specialist
  Junior Strategic Specialist
  Senior Strategic Specialist
  Junior Tactical Generalist
  Senior Tactical Generalist
  Junior Strategic Generalist
  Senior Strategic Generalist

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Centre of Expertise for Human-Centred Design can help you assess your hiring needs for designers.

To contact us, please send us an email, or join our official Microsoft Teams group.

All the references are available from the Centre of Expertise for Human-Centred Design.

1. Understanding Design and Designer Roles provides the basic understanding of design as a profession and various designer roles.
2. Hiring the Right Designer: A Concise Guide for Assessing Your Needs helps you self-assess your hiring needs, as a companion to this document.

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