The Future of Design Freelancing: Productization with Phillip Wallace
Channel: Chris ⚡️ Product Designer
Date: 08/11/2023

Freelancing got you stressed?
Running out of clients?
Looking to earn more?

Then watch this AMA, Chris and Philip dive into how designers can freelance in the FUTURE:

1. What is productization
2. How to productize your design service
3. The power of Design Sprints

and anything of your questions…

📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED

UX Playbook - https://uxplaybook.org/
BTNG: https://www.btng.studio/

🔗 CONNECT WITH PHILIP

👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipwallage/ 
💻 Website - https://www.philipwallage.com/
📸  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/philip_wallage/
🎥 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@PhilipWallage/
🐦  Twitter - https://twitter.com/Wallage

🔗 CONNECT WITH CHRIS 

📩 Newsletter - https://newsletter.uxplaybook.org/
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/uxchrisnguyen/
💻 Website - https://cjh.design/
📸  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/uxchrisnguyen/
🧵 Threads - https://www.threads.net/@uxchrisnguyen
🎥 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@UXChrisNguyen
🐦  Twitter - https://twitter.com/uxchrisnguyen

🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST

The Design of Everyday People is the bi-monthly Live that delves into the minds of design experts on different topics to help folks level up their careers and answers all the burning questions you may have during a live Q&A event.

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⌚️Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:13 Current situation of freelancing
3:33 What's productisation?
6:08 The brutal truth about freelancing
7:45 Why manually doing things is a problem?
9:50 Should you have a fixed price with standardised process?
11:54 Scalability in productisation
13:00 Definition of productisation
13:45 Type of freelancers can productise products
17:50 Should you promote your design agency on Product Hunt?
20:40 Methods or frameworks we use to track experiments
22:40 A summary of service productisation
24:25 How to identify which part of your process should be prioritised to outsource?
26:12 Is subscription-based design service a form of productised service?
30:50 Should you go niche or be more generalised when productising the services?
35:05 What to do when the companies don't understand your product or doesn't value eser-centred design?
36:28 Is productisation only for more senior members?
38:25 Productiser Crash Course
39:34 How to handle freelance projects as a designer when a product manager is missing in the project?
44:30 What's Design Sprint?
49:50 Top tips for selling Design Sprint
52:25 10 facilitation top tips for Design Sprint
57:18 Would it be beneficial to package your services as a way of productisation?
59:45 What are the strategies to secure the first freelance project and the ongoing sales?
1:06:44 Wrap up

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