1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,590 [In the Wild] 2 00:00:03,590 --> 00:00:08,350 [Allison] Treehouse is officially out in the wild. We've made our trek to Tampa, Florida 3 00:00:08,350 --> 00:00:11,960 where will be visiting Haneke Design studio, an interactive agency. 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,290 Let's go! 5 00:00:14,290 --> 00:00:20,880 [? music ?] 6 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:26,620 [Jody Haneke - Haneke Design President] Welcome to Haneke Design. It's pretty much the open plan, if you will. 7 00:00:26,620 --> 00:00:29,570 The majority of the work all happens right out here in this big room. 8 00:00:29,570 --> 00:00:34,840 [Allison] Yeah, this is a great space. Do you have the designers and developers all working in this common area? 9 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,530 [Jody] We do, primarily, and it works out pretty well. 10 00:00:37,530 --> 00:00:42,230 People are able to collaborate on the fly—get up, walk right over— 11 00:00:42,230 --> 00:00:47,400 designer and developer can really do some innovative work working this closely together in the big room. 12 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:55,170 The company was founded in 2002, so we're in our tenth year. I founded the company pretty much by myself. 13 00:00:55,170 --> 00:00:59,470 I started just working on contracts, and it just snowballed from there. 14 00:00:59,470 --> 00:01:02,060 [Jesse Curry - Development Director] I'm predominantly self-taught. 15 00:01:02,060 --> 00:01:12,360 I've got a long list of majors that I switched through in college—everything from biomedical sciences to philosophy, 16 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:14,360 chemistry for a little while. 17 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:22,980 And I tried computer sciences for about a semester and it was way too slow, and I realized I could just learn the stuff on my own. 18 00:01:22,980 --> 00:01:27,640 [Jody] Projects are varied as far as the starting point, if you will. 19 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,440 We have large companies with technology departments and business analysts, 20 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,440 and they'll put together detailed requirements that say, 21 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:39,800 "Hey, this is a mobile application that we need built. These are all the features and functions that need to be in it." 22 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:47,890 [Jesse] And then we have people that come in with a really vague idea, and they just say they want something that deals with photos. 23 00:01:47,890 --> 00:01:51,380 We'll actually do a consultation session. 24 00:01:51,380 --> 00:01:57,050 We'll sit down with them and really make them sharpen their idea and actually develop the entire product during that. 25 00:01:57,050 --> 00:01:59,050 [The Development Process] 26 00:01:59,050 --> 00:02:01,260 [Andrew Thomas - Designer] It's always going to start with a client kickoff meeting— 27 00:02:01,260 --> 00:02:06,380 sitting down, strategizing with the client on what the requirements of the projects are going to be, 28 00:02:06,380 --> 00:02:10,360 what type of features will be involved with the application. 29 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:17,700 This particular project was from a start-up. It's called TieTheKnotApp.com. 30 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:22,750 It was a group of people that came together and thought it would be a really great idea 31 00:02:22,750 --> 00:02:29,360 to be able to put together a mobile app for brides and grooms and wedding parties and wedding planners 32 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:37,600 to have a certain central location where they can communicate about events and things going on with the wedding. 33 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:45,260 We generally just try to give a working idea of what the navigation would be like, some of the content on the page, 34 00:02:45,260 --> 00:02:50,160 any content entry text fields, buttons, and things like that. 35 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:57,030 So we're really just calling those out and getting a general idea of what the placement and functionality on that page might be. 36 00:02:57,030 --> 00:03:05,900 This outfit didn't really have an identity when we started, so we wanted to give them a visual identity and strategize around that. 37 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:16,570 So we worked on developing a logo for them along with all of the color palettes and everything that would help give this website a brand itself. 38 00:03:16,570 --> 00:03:23,160 [Jody] When we look to hire anyone, whether it's designer or developer, one of the most important things in my book 39 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:28,950 is not necessarily—yeah, it's great to have the prerequisites as far as the technology is concerned, 40 00:03:28,950 --> 00:03:35,290 but technology is moving so quickly on both the design and the development side that it's really important 41 00:03:35,290 --> 00:03:40,460 that the folks that we hire are passionate about learning. 42 00:03:40,460 --> 00:03:50,750 [Jesse] Reading books about things, visiting user groups locally, it's a constant process because the industry's always in a state of flux, 43 00:03:50,750 --> 00:03:57,940 and if you're not keeping up with it, you're stagnating and you'll eventually end up working on dead technology. 44 00:03:57,940 --> 00:04:07,890 [Andrew] A lot of the designers here are always sending back and forth different links that they find for tutorials or different online classes 45 00:04:07,890 --> 00:04:10,960 or, "Hey, I found this today. Check it out." 46 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:16,750 [Allison] So what can a new developer expect to make as far as salary goes? 47 00:04:16,750 --> 00:04:20,130 [Jesse] It really depends on the skill set. 48 00:04:20,130 --> 00:04:30,000 I could see an entry-level developer walking into a $60k job, or I see them walking into a paid internship or a free internship. 49 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,790 The skill set is really going to be what matters. 50 00:04:32,790 --> 00:04:41,700 [Andrew] Going and looking at job descriptions out there, a lot of them are going to tell you to have knowledge in HTML or even Flash. 51 00:04:41,700 --> 00:04:47,750 They may not be looking for you to do that, but as they say in the job descriptions, it's a plus to have those. 52 00:04:47,750 --> 00:04:50,420 [Jesse] We don't want people to be too needy. 53 00:04:50,420 --> 00:04:55,650 If somebody encounters a problem and immediately asks for help, they're always going to do that. 54 00:04:55,650 --> 00:04:58,750 So we like people to be able to try to solve problems on their own. 55 00:04:58,750 --> 00:05:05,640 [Andrew] Coming into it with a really good knowledge base of what types of codes are being used, 56 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:13,940 a basic knowledge of how to wireframe up a website—just some of the current industry standards that are being used. 57 00:05:13,940 --> 00:05:21,990 [Jesse] In general we want each developer to know one native mobile framework or STK— 58 00:05:21,990 --> 00:05:24,080 really know either IOS or Android. 59 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:28,220 We have some people that know some Blackberry as well and some Windows phone, 60 00:05:28,220 --> 00:05:30,980 although we're not really getting too many requests for either of those. 61 00:05:30,980 --> 00:05:35,900 [Andrew] There's always a variety. You're never working on the same thing. 62 00:05:35,900 --> 00:05:43,240 In some cases you're not always working in the same role. Sometimes your job role will change from project to project. 63 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,070 Every day working at an interactive agency is different. 64 00:05:46,070 --> 00:05:51,070 [In the Wild]