This week our lecture was on freelancing and we also received our brief on the next project which is to create a tender document for a freelance designer who is going to create a digital experience and brand for the Titanic quarter. This lecture helped me understand the process of freelancing and how the relationship between the client and designer works, it also helped learning about the pay for the different levels of designers like junior and senior and how they work out the hours spent per day on the project.

A Project Guide to UX Design

Another task we had to do for next week was to read chapter three of the book: “A Project Guide to UX Design”. These are some of the points in this chapter that I found interesting.

The section called “creating the proposal” I found quite helpful for this next project as it outlined the core components of a good proposal document:

• Title page

• Revision history

• Scope of work

• Project overview

• Project approach

• Additional costs and fees

• Project pricing

• Assumptions

• Deliverables

• Ownership and rights

• Payment schedule

• Acknowledgement and sign-off

I also found the ownership and rights section interesting as it tells the difference between work for hire jobs and licensed work.

Work for hire projects are created and and under the copyright of the party who is paying for the work, not the party responsible for doing the work. So when you are doing this method of work you have no rights to the work and everything that you help create or design is the company’s property.

Then there is licensed work which allow the designer to retain the copyright of the work but grants other parties the right to copy or distribute the work. there are various different approaches to licensing your work like: licensing without modification or noncommercially.

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