Fixpert

I read blogs, lots of blogs. Great big gobs of blogs. Most of the blogs that I read are written by web designers, about web design. Over the last year or so, I’ve read along as many of these professionals have decided to go solo, breaking out to work for themselves. Their experiences seem to range from many months of planning and preparation to a sudden, flippant move to self-employment. It’s rather inspiring and I suppose reading about their experiences planted a seed in my head that this was one possible direction that I could go in.

I’m currently interviewing for various IA/Interaction/Interface/Experience Design Lead positions (we do have a lot of titles in this industry, don’t we?). But in the meantime, Fixpert’s workload has really bloomed. It’s quite exciting and unexpected, but I’m really enjoying it. I suppose that my version of the aformentioned “going solo” post is that I found myself making a go of freelance work somewhat unexpectedly, and it’s such a nice surprise!

If you count Saturday as a workday — and you easily could in this new-fangled freelance world — today is technically Day 4 of me working for myself. I’m already juggling six different projects that vary widely in terms of their scale and the type of work involved. It’s really fun meeting with my clients, talking about their needs and goals, and learning more about their particular industries.

Here’s what I’ve got on the burners right now:

• Design look/feel for a triathlete e-commerce site, including logo design
• Design and code e-commerce site for a professional illustrator
• Design a logo for a group researching historic African American cemeteries
• Develop a web site devoted to finding a home for the family of a young mother seriously injured in a car accident several years ago
• Design look/feel for a programmer’s blog
• Design a logo for a math tutoring service based out of Florida