Within ten minutes of my showing up at Microconf’s first event a fortnight ago, someone looked me in the eye and straight-up commanded me to charge more for teardowns. This happened shortly after I did an hour-long in-person teardown for my very nice email provider that was later described as worth the entire time he spent flying out to Denver for the actual conference.
Whenever anyone tells me to hike my prices with that much urgency, I hike my prices. And this particular exhortation came from someone I trust & deeply appreciate. So in one sense, this is all her fault; but in another, more accurate sense, it’s entirely my fault. Or we can blame inflation? Let’s blame inflation. I just adopted a new dog and I’ve been told he has to eat. You could help with that?
So this Friday, May 05 at 5p CDT, I’m hiking the price of teardowns. You may wish to buy yours right now. I am profoundly serious about this and regret nothing.
On a considerably more fun note, my pal Rachel & I are going to sell some work at Chicago Zine Fest on May 20.
I’ll be sharing new work, as well as some personal zines and one-off gifts that we gave out to clients as part of Draft’s 10-year anniversary a couple of years ago.
This will be more fun than anything else you have going that weekend, and you should absolutely turn up and say hello.
This week, for paid members
- This week’s paid lesson shows you how to identify differences between similar-looking products. Remember to group similar products on PDPs!
- Our fortnightly teardown is for apparel brand Tropicfeel. You won’t believe what happens next.
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Links
- Hoo boy. This article is making the rounds, and it says everything & nothing. Design is not dying; it is transforming. One must accept a new way of doing things that exists in right relationship to design’s true purpose. There is no craft, only practice. In what way are you now choosing to move?
- This is correct.
- Baymard’s latest covers collection performance, especially surrounding filtering & sorting. Lots of little things to get right!