411: Follow-upisode

<p>This week, we follow up on last week’s conversation about designing at agencies, hiring contractors, Yelp’s app icons, and Bock’s Constant. In the Sidebar, we talk about designing with your mind’s eye and how learning to brain-prototype will help fast-track your growth as a designer.</p><h3><strong>Latest VIP Patrons:</strong></h3><ul><li>Darion</li><li>Xinran Wang</li><li>Ólafur Sverrir Kjartansson</li><li>Adam Collier</li><li>Genghis Mendoza</li><li>Moj</li><li>Andrei Slobtsov</li><li>Chase Simmons</li><li>Justin Baughn</li><li>Derek Shirk</li><li>Misael Abreu</li></ul><p>If you’re in New York, come meet up at <a href="http://makeshiftbk.webflow.io">Makeshift</a>.</p><h3><strong>The Sidebar:</strong></h3><p>The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to bonus content going forward! Sign up at <a href="https://patreon.com/designdetails">patreon.com/designdetails</a>.</p><h3><strong>Main Topic:</strong></h3><p>This week, we follow up on last week’s conversation about designing at agencies, hiring contractors, Yelp’s app icons, and Bock’s Constant.</p><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/brcleach/status/1430703863850409985">Brian Leach followed up</a> and talked about how in-house designers might experience creative atrophy.</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/aboutRaffaele/status/1430950849187098629">Raffaele asked</a> when a product company should hire an external agency.</li><li>Genghis Mendoza sent over some advantages to working at an agency:<ol><li>Build your strategic business skill set, working with strategists, engagement managers and clients, you develop new views of what your designs do to impact the client's business.</li><li>Build your soft skills (consultant muscle): being able to articulate your designs, learning to work with a variety of different stakeholders. broaden your audience, from c-level to non-product people.</li><li>Exercise your design rigor, strengthen your process, or become nimble and adjust your pro