Design Is a Job

By: Mike Monteiro

Narrated by: Mike Monteiro

Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's Summary

Co-founder of Mule Design and raconteur Mike Monteiro wants to help you do your job better. From contracts to selling design, from working with clients to working with each other, this brief book is packed with knowledge you can't afford not to know.

©2012 Mike Monteiro (P)2014 Mike Monteiro

Brilliant, bright and extremely useful.

Mike tells it like it is. Here's how to sport a healthy web / design business. His advice is sound and valid. I agree a 100% with him, as it's the way I've run my own business and dealt with clients since I started in 2009. It's what has made my business profitable and stable while some of my "best" competitors have burnt their noses on bad clients, big projects that drag on forever, doing too much free work due to lack of clear scope at project initiation etc etc etc.

He gives great advice on how to deal with problematic clients, how to charge, what to charge, what to look out for, how to work with freelancers, and more. Well, basically it's how to deal with all the stuff most web / designers struggle with.

I have already recommended this book to three people, all of whom I know will benefit greatly from it. One of them has already praised it as much as I do.

It's extremely useful and to the point.

Good except the lip smacking

Sorry Mike Monteiro, you really should have hired a professional to read your book for you. You also need better recording equipment. It was difficult to listen to this book when the narrator is constantly making lip smacking and spit slurping noises while monotonously droning through their own words.

That said, the book is a must have for all designers, art directors, creatives, or anyone who works with any of the above. Highly recommended.

Great stuff

super useful content for designers and design students, recording volume was too low, hard to hear when you commute. but it is still a great book, so do what you need to be able to hear it. useful!!

A must read for all designers

Great take always.
The most importants ones for me today:
- When the budget is low: meet the budget by narrowing the scope, not changing your processes (e.g. Dropping research)
- When writing a client contract: Intellectual Property transfers on full payment
- When hiring: tell them honestly where you think their skills are today and where they should be in 6 months

a must have!

a must-have for designers of every kind! Priceless insight and years of experience at your fingertips. great narration!

Great for Junior Designers

This book is filled with good advice while remaining short, enjoyable, and to-the-point. Beginning designers can learn a lot from this book. I imagine veterans designers will have learnt a lot of the lessons in the book but might still learn about blindspots they have. The book is short and not too demanding time-wise so it won't be a loss to almost anyone.

Essential reading

I truly wish I read this book years ago. Listening to your repeated mistakes is hard.

Already recommended to many fellow designers, young and seasoned.

Mike Monteiro's own delivery is also priceless. Sounds sincere, serious and humorous at the same time. Thanks Mike, hope to meet you one day:)

Pure gold

If you're a designer, stop whatever you're doing and read/listen to this book.
Thanks Mike, for putting the effort to write and read this!!

A joy to listen to and learn from.

As of this date when I writing this review, I have listened to this book in its entirety twice. Hard lessons delivered in the kindest manner possible. A must-read for every creative professional in my opinion. Thank you.

Best design book out there.

When it come to design business books, I have read them all. This is the one I keep re-reading over and over again. I also send this to every designer friend as a gift.

How all audio books should be

Great advice for all designers new and not so new. Narrated in a very entertaining and enjoyable way

Essential reading for designers and design managers

Absolutely essential reading for anyone working in design - a life of lessons learnt so you don't have to do it the hard way too

This will make you cry

Solid, honest and entertaining.
Good read for newbies and veterans :-)

( Probably something you should give to your boss to read )

Good book for anyone who is a designer

A good source of information on being or becoming a successful designer. A nice short book that doesn't waffle on with all that pointless stuff.

Good advice

Some really good advice and knowledge for me starting my small architectural design firm. This book is well worth a listen.

Useful and to the point

I personally didn't find any massive revelations in this book but it's easy to read and reaffirms some good practices and useful tips.

good book

great lesson & good sense of humor to deliver the message. Message delivered direct ; Feels like you're speaking to the author direct

A book worth reading by everyone

Really useful and well written, content of the book addresses issues from work with people to giving life to you as a designer

A true reflection of a Designers journey

So many resources can be found online about what it takes to be a great designer, to design great work and boy, don’t they paint a great picture.

The only thing missing is the stories, experiences and the hardship you’ll go through to get there: and this book gives you just that.

In an industry where people have such high expectations of the designer they hope to become, Mike sheds light on the experiences good and bad, as a way of mentoring you for what’s ahead.

A brilliant short listen.
Thank you for sharing your experiences with others.

not bad

the book is great with it content.. but the performance is poor .. u hear Mike swallowing .. and is way of reading is so disturbing