A presentation I gave to the students of the Digital Interaction Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee. The aim was to give an overview of agency life and provide some insight for their future.
Standard high school\nWanted to go to art school - FAILED\nYear doing general art\n3rd year forgotten chairs - VIDEO\nNative - valuable experience\n4th year - unsure what to do\nMasters - Speech hedge\nApplication to companies\nAlmost a year and a half at Equator\n
Big numbers agency - reception \n
Communal \nMeeting rooms \nSofa\n
Pods of people set in departments\n
BD - get the business, talkers, schmoosers\nPM 8 - Schedule, huddle \nDev 12 - 2 teams\nMarketing - SEO, affiliates, social media, PPC\nClient services 15 - interfacing\nDesign 10 - Concepts, campaigns, pitches, visuals\nIllustrator, bits and pieces mostly sites\nBrent - Our Ali\nOps - Grant \nFinance 2\n
Take you through a typical project \n\nPitch, calling up \nInfo to create a brief\nMeeting all together to work out the timings and costs based on brief\n
For however many scoped hours\nScheduling in over days\nBeginning the project\nStarting - differs on different projects \n
1. Comes from client services & meeting\n2. Project dependent on this stage\n3. Flat simple visuals, complexity varies. Layout tool to get it right for the client. \nINVISION APP\n
4. Discussion with JJ or Elaine\n5. Client services\n6. Pitch in on call (advantages) and get feedback before formal feedback\n7. Several rounds fighting back and forth with justification\n8. Woohoo\n9. Delivery then back to amends stage loop\n