Bluecadet Interactive

Hiring a talented in-house designer who understands interactive can be a real challenge. The elusive designer/developer rockstars do exist, but unfortunately they’re scarce, often get snapped up quickly and can demand daunting salaries. So what’s a small, agile digital design studio to do? Should they look for someone with an amazing eye for typography, or someone that can code the latest HTML5 markup and write Javascript? After eight years of running an interactive studio, this article covers how to get the most out of hires.

Learn how Bluecadet finds the right hire through outreach and recruiting, creates a culture of learning, and then retains designers once they've cultivated the right skills. Read the full article at HOW.

 Learn more from Josh Goldblum and ask him questions in the upcoming DesignCast Making Web Designers: Transitioning Designers from Print to Interactive on Nov. 16, at 2 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. Pacific).