Should you hire a junior designer for your startup?

Finding good people is hard, hiring them is an exercise in gambling and salesmanship, and keeping them is both a joy and a constant stress.

Shawn Sprockett
Published in
5 min readJan 19, 2018

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I’m often approached by founders who want advice on who their first design hire should be. You usually have two choices: hire fast and cheap…

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Designer at SSPROCKETT and faculty at California College of Arts. Formerly of Airbnb, Meta, Google, Apple, Milton Glaser, and Condé Nast.