Joe Jones – Freelance

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// PROFILE

I’m passionate, strategic, and entrepreneurial, with a wealth of design experience. Having worked both agency and client-side, I understand exactly what you need from a freelance.

I‘m a curious and relentless problem-solver, with an uncanny ability to cut straight to the heart of complex issues. I can work as a client-facing champion for your agency; or a secret weapon that you keep hidden in the basement.

I’m agreeable, conscientious, and will aim to surprise you. In a good way.

  • Imaginative & original problem-solver
  • Highly-skilled visual explainer & animator
  • Lifelong environmentalist / sustainability advocate
  • Accomplished verbal and written communicator
  • Startup / new market growth hacker

// Skills Overview

User Experience Design (UX/UXD)

  • Product Design
  • UI (User Interface)
  • Usability Review

Informational Design

  • Infographics
  • Explainer Videos
  • 2D Animation

Graphic Design

  • Presentations
  • Reports
  • Illustration

Brand Design & Development

  • Strategy
  • Visual Identity
  • Guidelines

Design Management

  • Brief Creation & Review
  • Stakeholder Engagement

// Speciality - Explainers & Infographics

I can help you identify key concepts that are essential for your audience to understand, come up with innovative ways to communicate them, and put those concepts into production hands-on. I can provide, or input to:

  • Brief Development
  • Creative Concept Generation
  • Narrative & Script / Copy Writing
  • Storyboard & Animatics
  • Illustration & Artwork
  • Production

Tools include - Drawing & Sketching, Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects, Soundbooth, Edge, Premiere

Showreel - Infographic & Explainers

// Speciality - User Experience Design (UX/UXD)

With over 20 years' experience in design and development of websites and web apps, and digital branding, I know how to apply best-practice UX principles in a practical and effective way.

  • UX Reviews - To identify & resolve issues
  • Information Architecture (IA) Design
  • UI Design - Streamlining and improve User Interfaces

Tools include - Whiteboard / Post-its / Card Sorting, Balsamiq, InVision, XD, Omni Suite

Project Management/Comms Tools include - Slack, Trello, Asana, Teamwork, Basecamp, Dropbox, G-suite, Office 365

// Contexts in which you might hire me

• Your agency needs specialised skills on ad-hoc basis
• You want to produce world-class explainer/infographic content
• You need a broad range of creative work done, but don’t want a whole bunch of different freelances to manage
• You need extra big-picture creative & strategic thinking, without London costs

// Rates

• General Design work from £350 +VAT per day
• Strategic Consultancy from £450 +VAT per day

Rates are negotiable depending on type, duration and frequency of work.

If you have a project to discuss or just want to have a chat and find out more, give me a call on UK+44(0)7535 839008 , email me on or message me Linkedin or Twitter