How to be a Freelance Product Designer - Jared Erondu
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Jared Erondu is a freelance Product Designer.
erondu.com
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A documentary on freelancing called FREELANCED is currently being filmed. For more information check out freelance.tv.
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Questions:
[0:10] What does freelancing mean to you? I mean, what do you think when you hear that word, “freelance”?
[0:34] Do you think freelancers need certain skills to become successful?
[2:09] Tell me about how you got started and what led you into freelancing for the first time?
[3:43] How did you land your first projects? Seems like it’s always the hardest thing to do. How did you get through this?
[5:30] How do you charge your clients and how did you come up with that solution?
[8:32] Do you think you can make a lot of money freelancing compared to full-time?
[10:36] So, I noticed you don’t really use the term freelance when you talk about yourself publicly, you seem to always say contract instead. Why is that?
[9:35] Will everyone succeed at it?
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Thank you for watching this video I'm Dann Petty, a freelance designer in San Francisco, CA with past clients like Google, Medium, National Geographic, Airbnb, Nixon, and many more.
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Jared is incredibly compelling to listen to!
Pixel & Bracket awesome name and logo!
He speaks very well.
@@SuperMentalMicky wait,…,what? Exactly do you mean by ”he speaks well”?
@@leshonorables2718
What's wrong about it?
Yo, this guy is living my dream.
Thank you so much for sharing! I just finished my Product Design Diploma in 2020 and I don't feel ready for the industry at all. I feel like Design school was more stressing about chasing deadlines than anything else. Now I just need to reflect on what I want and where I want to be in Design as well as sharpen my AutoCad skills this year. In South Africa the industry is very much white male dominated so as a young black female I get so inspired to see POC like yourself within this industry prospering. Thank you once again!
Hey Naomi, I will graduate from design school this year and wanted to ask if you would like to connect to talk about our vision. I'm stuck don't knowing where I want to go with this career.
Greetings, Tina
👋🏽 Hey, all! Happy to answer any questions on what I said here! For example, I go a bit deeper on calculating freelance rates here: askplaybook.com/how-can-you-calculate-your-freelance-rate/answer/erondu
And if you have broader ones, ask the design community here! --> askplaybook.com
Awesome stuff Jared, since you work in a weekly basis, I was wondering, how do you handle opportunity cost?
Opportunity cost in what sense?
Well, since time is limited, and in case you're in full capacity, what's your criteria to decide if you accept one client instead of another client.
Gotcha! So how I evaluate clients. I look for a few things: the team (are these people I want to work with), the vision (is there a clear one? Am I inline with it?), their understanding of design OR willingness to learn (not much point in contributing my expertise if it won't be valued in the end), a clear scope (is this a figure it out as we go kinda thing? Or do they know why they're bringing me in now).
Other things factor in of course, like location/compensation/skills required/etc
THIS FACT!!! When you're charging hourly, the better you become and the faster you finish the work, the less you make in the long run. One way to counteract this is to compute a surcharge factor for the hourly work. i.e. 1hr x hourly rate x surcharge factor.
I'm not even a freelancer, but this was so insightful!! Thank you for not wasting time with captain obvious advice and sharing specifics on your lessons.
Definitely one of the best videos regarding freelance. It gave me new perspective on a few things. Thanks for doing this!
This video has been incredibly helpful for me to manage my time better without feeling overwhelmed. Thank you for the content. Love it!
Seriously, this is amazing!
Such a wholesome, genuine, caring and self aware design leader. Rare to see in today's tech startup world :)
Thank you so much, so good to know I'm not the only one with the " Hi, I'm free, so I work and you pay me, right? "
I don't charge hourly because of all the experience that I got from working in advertising agencies for years by doing things really quickly and accurate and sometimes I got stuck in a problem for hours and other times I solve the problem in a heartbeat. Awesome content :)
So much value you share here with us man, thank you! I feel like a lot of us contractors or freelancers are like headless chickens, we are moving somewhere but not always on the right path, we do things not the way we should have. Love the grading of your videos.
Jared is so damn awesome! Thanks for making this series Dan ✨
Enjoyed every thirteen minutes of the video! Sums up what it takes to be a freelancer in the design industry perfectly!
A suggestion. I would lower the music volume so I can hear Jared's voice better.
This is indeed an awesome video, you gave a very honest and detailed explanation of the freelancing world. its about 6years since this was posted this video and yet everything you said still applies to this very day. Thanks for this video
Great tip on researching the company you want to work for! Keep em coming Dan!
Jared, thank you for sharing your story. You're so well spoken, really great soft skills!
That was a voice of all the freelancers. Signing under each word!
Dan, these are really great to watch dude. Can't wait to see the Docu!
He is an extremely intelligent person!
watching this after 5 years and working as a successful one person business, damn.
Dann, we need more of these!
Great! I recently uploaded a video about Product Design Career exploration and it matches so good with this one!
Very cool. Makes me excited to graduate and get my first real job.
Thank you for these videos Dann...it's really helping me understand what I want to get myself into.
This guy mastered public speaking.
Jared is such an inspiring speaker, thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you for bringing location into subject, hard to deny!
I'm hoping to start up freelancing and just had no idea where to go but this has shed some light on some important factors. thanks guys!
Loved every second of this video! Hate to sound cliché but it really ignited something in me to pursue what I really want to do, as opposed to being on a shitty 1-dimensional hole
Thanks for the much needed information ❤
This guy is really smart, and is good at making a point
These are awesome. I never thought about doing weekly, but you may have just turned me onto it!
Eloquent delivery. So inspiring.
Wow this is exactly what I've been looking for as I'm following the same path as Jared. Thanks for this!
thanks for this video, seriously a lot of insides for all wannabe freelancer's, thanks Dann
Thanks Jared. You just gave me something to think about.
love the high quality of it
Love this interview. Interesting how I got a Tristian Walker vibe. Very professional.
This dude is awesome. Fantastic video.
This is dope. Great video.
thanks for this insight. It's really helpful as I embark on this journey
Love it Dann! Keep making them!
Super cool interview, thank you for this =)
Fantastic points he makes.
Thanks for the share.
This is great!
Congrats!
This content is great! But I would improve the background music.. In my opinion the sound should be more positive, so it fit better to the important and good words from Jared :)
LOVE these videos
Great video
Really inspiring, thanks !
great series bro
Fantastic interview 👌
I have a question though. When you go with the Weekly rate how do you set the price ( say a minimum number). I also charge hourly and feels the same. I want to try weekly but tell me how to go with that. Thanks Dan for shooting this :)
This is great!
Very good video, thank you.
Thank you!!! That was great!!:)))
Hey Dann, I really like it, its inspiring! Keep up the awesome work!
Soooo good!
Very interesting!
Im sorry if you spoke about it, but where do you get freelance clients? Sites like Upwork are getting so competitive and rates are so low for designers
Thank you
I love it!
Awesome video. really helpful. However I need help. a client approached me to design an appliance for maybe a kettle of blender as an example.
I read charging per hour is not a good idea but for a day or a project I feel like it is better. so keeping in mind the design process the client comes with a market research and I have to carry on from the target market, mood boards and inspiration with more insight research. concept development sketches with three directions to choose one from to be refine and then freeze the phase 1 in order to start cad modeling, 3d printing, mockups and material testing all the way to the final working prototype. how much would one charge for all these? as a whole project and it is for batch or mass production. design criteria and specs and tolerances will be provided by the engineers or from manufactures.
Does anyone know how one might figure out their weekly pricing as a freelancer?
Try into different angle. Overall is awesome!
Great content
Tank you
He reminds me of Will Smith
Jared, do you have github, stackoverflow dribbble? Does those help at getting hired?
I have a Github and Dribbble (/erondu on both). I've never done a project that's come through any of those services, but I know that Dribbble has been helpful for others for find projects or jobs (lots of recruiters reaching out through it now)
great intel
Amazing
🔥🔥🔥
Great video, loved the interview and what was said, but the title ? Not very accurate. Still thumbed up :)
Great insights Jared. Though I was hoping for you to talk something about your side-hustles as well. For instance, High Resolution.
Thanks! What do you want to know about them?
Jared Erondu About how it all begun, what motivated you to start, how did the collaboration with Bobby happened and how being a freelancer allowed you to do that.
Gotcha!
Bobby and I noticed a painful trend when interviewing designers for teams we built in the past: some didn't really know what value they were supposed to provide to a business beyond "making it look good."
This, in turn, led to the companies they worked for believing design was just surface level. It created a cyclical pattern. The designer doesn't know the value > can't communicate/show it business > business doesn't get the value > undervalues it.
We wanted to break the cycle by creating a series focused on design leaders who were once ICs (individual contributors) and who had a proven track record of knowing the value of design, being able to communicate it to a business, and getting that business to buy-in.
Our hope was that through 25 examples of this, we could help equip the entire design community with the tools and terminologies to change the perception of design in their orgs (and for business people to see what they were missing out on).
Being a freelancer provided me the flexibility to spend hours on hours researching and travel to 6 cities for filming without having to take sick days :)
Jared Erondu You guys certainly did a great job.
TFW I'm from Wisconsin
Nice computer chair what is that
Hey Dann, which camera do you use for the interviews :)?
Fabrice Pöhlmann Dann has all the camera and edit details in the description.
Thanks bro! Sorry I´m lazy haha xD
#awesome
Does this guy have a channel?!
I do! czcams.com/users/highresolution
Just love it soooo much! Thank you for all series from freelance.tv
Honestly, I don't even know what a Product Designer does :)
Whats onboard flow?
Zoe D it's kind of a sales funnel but then for getting people integrated
How can I find that chair?
It's the Embody Chair by Herman Miller
I didn't know that Will Smith used to be a freelancer 🙂
ThinkPad you
Why does this feel like a promotional video. What are you guys selling
Yo seriously what kind of office chair is that?
Hahaha, it's the Embody Chair by Herman Miller
being a freelancer means you get the desk underneath the stairs.
Anyone else feel he sounds just like Elon musk when he talks like the exact same way
Why not charge on a project basis? Weekly suffers the same pitfalls as hourly, no?
David Platt ahah he talked about it in the video, but what you’re saying makes sense. Charging weekly is better though, in case the project runs over.
go naija go
you look alike will smith dude, somewhat
:P he's cute
Hello everyone i am 34 I work for a private product sketch company I have done wonderful designs for great companies. Send me an email for and ideas. Thank you guys