Design Matters

San Diego, CA - Full time - UX Designers for products & services company.

We're digital-telepathy, but our friends call us dt. We're the UX Agency and Products shop behind SlideDeck, Hello Bar, Flare and more. We focus on ideas that are challenging, rewarding and fun. We're growing on both the products and client side of the fence and are looking for great UX & Interface Designers to be a part of our team.
...Interested?

On any given day, you may spend your time:

- Collaborating and strategizing with fellow designers or strategists to bring client and product ideas to life

- Focusing on betterment – finding new ways to make ourselves and the things we make better

- Sharing your creative vision with your team and clients

- Teaming with developers to craft compelling interactions

- Using design research and analytics to inform new designs and refine existing ones

- Writing a blog post on UX, if that’s what you’re into

- And most important – crafting beautiful and elegant web interfaces

* Who you are. We’re looking for someone to help us bring forth new ideas, interactions and experiences that work well across not only devices, but audiences as well. You should be fun to work with, because you love what you do, right? You’re comfortable pitching ideas to your team and clients, and iterating on them swiftly. You’re constantly redesigning things in your head, both on and offline to reduce friction and improve experiences. It also won’t hurt if you have a love of…

There are some examples out there. (see links below)

I would recommend only using Wordpress for the public facing website or blog though.

Use Rails or Laravel for the actual SaaS application.

WP is difficult to work with when you start moving beyond CMS features. Also WP has ongoing security issues.

Rails and Laravel are made for building apps, is easier to work with and more secure. Also checkout Laravel Spark, it's a SaaS App in a box and can save you tons of time.

Definitely possible to build it directly in WP, but I wouldn't recommend it.

https://raison.co/building-saas-startup-wordpress/

https://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/products/wordpress-saas-application-platform

https://www.npgroup.net/blog/4-reasons-you-should-reconsider-building-your-saas-on-wordpress/

Awesome to hear about the clickthrough rate. I just wrote this post: http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/telepathy/how-to-help-japan-with-aid-and-awareness/

I am also going to ask some of the speakers at SXSW to share the "helpjapan" invite key at their talks.

I updated the code to a Hello Bar we control in case there are scaling issues:

<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.hellobar.com/hellobar.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
new HelloBar(1,9126);
</script>
<noscript>Help The Victims of the 8.9 Earthquake in Japan by Spreading Awareness and Aid. Visit http://goo.gl/wjZQz to donate.
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