You may not know this, but JMP has never had a full-time designer on staff.
We’ve always used the creative people in SAS marketing to design brochures, print ads, JMP Foreword, event signage, success stories and more. And we’ve used the creatives on our Web and User Enablement teams to design many of our online and interactive assets. At times, we’ve also contracted with freelancers for one-off design projects.
Today we’re in a different position all together.
While we have loved working with SAS designers, we’ve parted company in this new year so that they can focus on SAS assets and so that we can assess what design needs we really have as our own company.
And our needs as a company are different now than they were two years ago when we visited more customers and prospects in-person, when we set up displays at trade shows, when we hosted hundreds of Discovery Summit attendees at a time. We’re not handing out brochures and our users aren’t printing out PDFs, so there are fewer things to design.
It’s a different situation now, and we have a different mindset too. With easy access to world-class designers, you could say we’ve been a bit spoiled. But now that so much of what we do is online, and now that we’re designing our own materials and/or considering freelance options, we have fewer design needs.
Our first step in figuring out our design needs and deciding how to meet those needs: make a list of things people want designed. If you have a project you’d like designed or a template that needs updating, let us know in the Comments section below. Whatever it is, we want to know about it. (The exceptions are for anyone on the Communications and Discovery Summit teams. We know what’s needed.)
As we assess and prioritize projects, we’ll be in touch with you. Together we can decide if your request is business critical. Or is it a nice-to-have kind of thing that can wait? We’ll figure out what projects we handle in-house with existing talent, and which projects need a specialized designer.
Thank you for your patience.
