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Getting real, WeBreakStuff expands

Fred Oliveira on December 2, 2005

Things are getting pretty real around here. WeBreakStuff is expanding (the ones of you who regularly visit the site may even have noticed the homepage change from last week), and we’re going from a “one man army” into a full blown team of developers and designers. Managing growth is a complex thing, and in the last few months the work requests and proposals went up the roof - thus begging for a change of pace and more heads to split up work with.

So, we’re now an active team of individuals building products and consulting. This means we’re back to taking new clients (even though in a limited fashion as before) and we’re thinking about getting another designer into the fun (read on for how and why to send your resume). The webpages will be updated with information on how WeBreakStuff can work with your company to improve your services and products.

So this post is a little out of the ordinary - it doesn’t talk about Web 2.0, usability or development. It talks about how we’re evolving ourselves - now that we can actually say “we” and mean it. If you want to work with us, now’s the time, say hello. For more information on what WeBreakStuff is and our line of work, peruse the site. We’re looking forward to working with exciting projects and people.

If you’re a (special) designer, keep reading

We have one (maybe two) design positions to fill. We only have one designer right now and we’re setting up deals to cooperate with a couple of innovating design studios. Still, we’re looking for great talent to join the team. We are picky though, so read on.

We want a designer that thinks user first, looks later. We want a designer that knows what IA is and can make proper decisions based on it. We don’t want people who only know Photoshop or Flash. We want people who can’t stop thinking about information and making it useable. We want extremely creative people, who have the good ideas at the right times and great ideas at the wrong times. If this is you we’re talking about, definitely say hello.

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Shotoshi

Good luck with your new venture but here’s a tip: Always respond to genuine enquiries even if it’s a ‘no, sorry but I can’t help you with your new project’. That’s all.

Zen

Yeah. It’s common curtesy (and especially in a professional environment) to answer to all the people that applied to your request. Even if it means that you are not interested… E mesmo que a linguagem utilizada não seja o inglês, já agora.

NigelMellish

Ditto.

Fred

If I didn’t reply to your application email - or any email at all - (particularly emails sent in the last 3 weeks), please do send them again. There have been problems with the email server, and as discussed in the comments in the last post, I’ve lost a couple of hundred emails because of that. I’ll have a notice about this in the homepage.

I do try to reply to all emails in due time, obviously. Job application emails may require more time because we actually need to compare and look at work, which takes time (Zen, if you did send in your application, please resend it in case we didn’t get it).

Jonathan Boutelle

Congrats, Frederico!

Great to see that you guys are experiencing lots of success, and are expanding your operations.

Who are the other individuals besides you? It would be nice to see their profiles, etc…

All the best,
-Jon

Fred

Jonathan, thank you! I didn’t get to say goodbye before I left California, but it was nice meeting you (and as I said, we share some interests - maybe that calls up for some collaboration in the future).

All the pages will be updated with information as soon as I get on top of the torrent of email coming in - that’s a promise. ;)

Richard MacManus

Congrats Fred on branching out. You’ve got the talent and business sense to be Portugal’s answer to Adaptive Path! Good luck with the venture.

Fred

Richard, thank you!

I don’t want to be an answer to Adaptive Path - I love their company, they’re great guys and have a great attitude (heck, some even read this blog). I do share some ideas with them, though, that I want to persuit for myself. This is why I said (when we both were in california) that I’d rather work on my projects than being in AP - even if they still are a company I’d love to be a part of.

lawrence

ditto on the responses… probably a good idea to work that into your new processes.

Zen

Fred, i’ve done what you asked me to do.

Ps. Again, great site :)

Fred

Thanks, I did get your recent email (and those of the people who’ve been kind enough to resend - thank you). I’ll be replying as soon as possible - I’m overwhelmed by the number of proposals we got.

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