How to Outsource Design Tasks for Your Website/Blog

Tips for outsourcing design tasks for your website

According to Nielsen Norman Group, we only have 10 seconds to make an impression on your web visitors, but sometimes, you don’t even have time that long, as forty percent of people will leave a website if it takes more than three seconds to load.  Therefore, creating a good blog or website design becomes important and finding designers who can create a captivating and user friendly design is significant. As an owner, you may feel burdensome to find the right designers for your own desired, here are some tips that we can give related to design for website or blog.

Carefully Consider Your Recruitment Strategy

Selecting the right people to work for you is a must; you will surely want to have the right person to do your job. For this matter, you may search your designers through referrals, online searchers, or by posting a job ad. Besides, you also need to think about where you will post you ad, as posting a job in a wrong place will only lead you to waste you money since it will only bring you bids from beginners without any samples.

Furthermore, being detailed about what you expect for an ideal designer is also necessary as you will filter all the prospective designers based on your desired criteria. If you wish to have professional and experienced designer, showing how much salaries they would get in ad is also a good idea.

Hire People who Know Graphic Design and Web Design

Designers is a broad term as it can be classified into a more specific job, such as web designer, UX designer, graphic designer, and etc. So, make sure about what kind of designers which you would like to hire as if you do not determine enough about it , you will likely end up with a designer who isn’t fit for your project. For example, you could hire someone who understands web coding and can make tweaks to your theme, but he may not have the experience and knowledge to arrange the elements in the same way a graphic designer would. Therefore you may need to hire a graphic designer to develop a logo and banners, however if he used to work in print design, then he may not understand the non-graphic design elements of your website.

It does not mean that they are untalented; it is simply because they are not a right person to handle your project. Hence, because you want to have a good design for your blog or web, hiring web and graphic design is a wise idea as they will not only comprehend about how to create a captivating layout, but also they know how to optimize the elements for the online experience.

Start by Outsourcing a Single Task

Design is a work that cannot be valued with scores as it will depend on people’s taste. Therefore you need to make sure that their works will suit your taste by giving him/her a task before deciding to work with them. This task will help you determine about their jobs. In this sense, the design task can be integrated as a part of an “interview”.