The toolkit
Checklists and calculators for hiring design help.
Every tool on this site, in one place. The checklists copy to your clipboard in one tap; the calculators run live with your numbers and show their math. Take them into real meetings. No email gate, no PDF, no catch.
Calculators.
CalculatorThe comparison worth doingFull-time versus fractional design leadership, in real monthly numbers you can slide./fractional-head-of-design/CalculatorThe effective senior rateTwo proposals in, one comparable number out: what each bill actually pays per senior hour on your product./writing/product-design-firm-cost/CalculatorTrue cost of the engagementThe lines a proposal never shows, your hours, revisions, lock-in, added up live./writing/product-design-firm-cost/
Checklists.
ChecklistWhat to ask any design-leader candidate, me includedFive interview questions that separate leaders who still build from leaders who only review./hire-a-design-leader/ChecklistThe five-question self-checkIs your design team actually ahead on AI? Five honest yes-or-nos./ai-design-consultant/ChecklistScope the first project in five linesFill these in and any senior consultant can give you an accurate scope and price in one call./design-consultant/ChecklistThe hiring sequenceThe order to build a design team so every hire lands on a foundation that multiplies them./how-to-build-a-design-team/ChecklistThe eight questionsWhat to ask a product design firm before signing, with the follow-up that exposes a rehearsed answer for each./writing/questions-to-ask-a-product-design-firm/ChecklistWalk-away signalsSix signs a firm engagement will disappoint, worth a read before any pitch meeting./writing/questions-to-ask-a-product-design-firm/
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