BB Outreach - WG-Design Liaison
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Date
Nov 17, 2021
Last Edited Time
Feb 4, 2022
You’re part of Writer’s Guild, Legal Guild, newsletter, client services, first quest, etc What are your roles in these projects? Do you ever get outside guild work?
- Has no official roles - more like a ninja to get things done
- He's currently having something designed for him in the Legal Guild, but it doesn't happen often
- Never sourced anything for the newsletter
- He wants to increase the quality of visual on newsletter, but it's a long-term project
- Client services - he's sourced designs number of times
- First quest - nothing in particular, doesn’t participate in meetings
- They put out a new members guide with Ethhunter in the weekly rollup
- They are working on a more comprehensive version (wallet security) and all tools the DAO uses
- That will be dropped in the first quest channel - but he doesn’t know what they will do with it, and he doesn’t know how it’ll work
- This kind of happened organically in the WG
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How often do cross-guild work come up?
- Like once every 1-2 weeks
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Writer’s guild design liaison - what’s this role and what are your challenges?
- There is no “design liaison” per se, it’s not a real role yet
- They (he, Frank) source people for their own design needs and for client services
- They kind of know which designer to tap for which client based on designer style
- How? He just dropped into the AV Guild and Design Guild - introduced himself and asked for the process
- Made some connections, and since then sourcing of the design work through DMs
- Using NFThinker as his filter
- Also has relationships with Nittra and Dippudo
- Frank Ocean uses Cosmic Clancey a lot
- Tension points:
- figuring out pricing initial quote
- bump up compensation based on # of redesign rounds (he tips extra BANK when he feels tension, and he likes to do revisions)
- A clear pricing guidance would be helpful (maybe on bounty board itself?)
- Wishes he knew what the design aesthetic of people were
- Wishes he knew particular talents of people on bounty board (not just design)
- He wants to get people based on their aesthetic
- i.e. Nittra is more comic-like, Cosmic Clancey is more realistic, Dippudo is a more ethereal aesthetic
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What is your process for engaging designers?
- He usually just DMs them - he has a few regulars to choose from
- He's up front about the BANK, tells them budget and tell them what he wants
- He tries not to be too descriptive on what he wants - finished product comes out better if designers have space to be creative
- If there is work that he needs that can’t be done by his regulars, he will tap NFThinker - and ask him
- He sourced this guy for simple photoshop work for the Legal Guild (cheap for 500 BANK)
- He just has a personal connection with him
- Then they get proofs, and they do an iterative direction back and forth until it’s done
- It usually doesn’t take a lot of revisions to get where he needed
- sometimes it’s like 2-3 or up to 10-15 depending on who does it
- 3-4 is average # of revisions for him
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How do you find “jobs”?
- He doesn’t really…most of the work he does it writing and editing and the framework in the writer’s guild - it just works!
- Same for newsletters, it’s easy and clear for him
- For legal guild, he’s and editor and he just gets a flat monthly rates
- he's definitely not looking on bounty board for work - he'd rather do unpaid stuff to make the DAO better
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What do you think of the bounty board?
- He's looked into a little bit - a little naive about it
- Would use bounty board, because he likes the idea of it being transparent
- He has a lot of siloed institutional knowledge, if someone else knew what he knew, it would help others navigate this org
- How do you keep institutional knowledge at the DAO when people come and go - he sees the bounty board as a way to centralize this knowledge
- Potentially people (Designers) could attach the styles they work with, making it easier to find the designer you need
- Maybe if he needs a job ASAP, i.e. a 3h turnaround time, he could use it
- It could make it easier if he knew peoples' aesthetic
- One thing that would be so helpful would be to have bounty board to be a cornerstone of the DAO
- It feels like a buried project - you read about it a lot, but don’t see it a lot
- The sub channel somewhere would be kind of interesting - the web interface as its own channel
- When asked: he didn't really remember how he looked at BB in the past, but didn't use the website. Viewed #-bounty-board and the website while we were on the call
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What would it take to get you to use it?
- Good UX and more information (reviewed while we were on the call)
- note: likely he's saying the BB has bad UX at the moment
- He’s an information junkie
- The more he understands about what he’s doing - he would use it more
- More ways to filter/select, etc
- His fear - 1500 BANK bounty to provide a hand-drawn header for an article
- Someone who doesn’t really do that work grabs it and gives him unusable content
- The first-come, first-serve thing doesn’t seem to be super efficient and effective
- The gating of roles would be a really good start
- Also would be nice to have design guild tags for photoshop, animate, etc