I sat down with Alexander Paschka , a fellow designer in our group, and we ran a Constellations study together, then talked through the results on video. The question we tested was what premium orange juice looks like, but honestly the fun part was comparing notes. Two designers looking at the same data, noticing different things, agreeing on some reads and pushing back on others. That back and forth is where the good stuff came out. Watch it here: https://constellations.app/premium-orange-juice/ If you'd ever want to run a study and break down the results together like this, say so in the comments. I'd like to do more of these. I hope everyone has a great weekend. -Joe

Just an update. Roundtable workshop today- how to earn client approval. The set up The meeting The sign off The payment Bring a project you're stuck on or one that went sideways. 4PM eastern today: https://www.skool.com/constellations-2153/calendar?eid=8d09c69aefc04e60ace5a609a2788b33

Friday, August 28, 4:00 PM Eastern. Two problems come up more than any others when designers talk to me. The first is approval. Work that dies in committee, revision cycles that never end, stakeholders who can't tell you what they want but are certain it isn't this. The second is finding work at all, which is its own kind of misery right now. I've been on both sides of it. I taught design for about twenty years, and the students who actually took this advice and used it did well with it. I've also run an agency for twenty-three, which means I've made most of these mistakes myself and paid for them. So let's talk. Bring a project that's stuck, a portfolio question, a pricing question, whatever you're actually dealing with. This is a discussion, not a lecture. Constellations comes into it, since a lot of approval trouble is really an evidence problem, and testing a direction is cheaper than arguing about one. But it isn't a product session, and you don't need to be using the tool to get something out of it. Friday, 4:00 PM Eastern. See you there. Here's the event https://www.skool.com/constellations-2153/calendar?eid=8d09c69aefc04e60ace5a609a2788b33 Comment here if you want to join the discussion and share any questions ahead of time so i can prepare.

Hey everyone, I know it's been quiet. We've been taking the summer to really develop the website, but more importantly, develop the tool and have some exciting new features and some really interesting projects we've been working on. We'll have more information soon, but I wanted to share our founders video if you've got a few minutes and wanna hear more about Andrej, Jake, and my own background a little bit and how we came to work together. Have a watch. Would love to hear what you think. I'm gearing up material for Skool soon, sorry it's been a slow summer here but we've been working quietly but diligently behind the scenes and will have more to share soon.