Max Cutler

Last night I posted a cryp­tic job offer­ing on Twit­ter, even offer­ing to pay for the work. After get­ting a num­ber of pri­vate queries for more infor­ma­tion, I thought I’d make my request pub­lic instead of pri­vately email­ing half a dozen people.

Back­ground

As you might have gath­ered from my other blog posts, I am, first and fore­most, a devel­oper. I’ve done stints as the combo designer-and-developer for sites, but I’ve learned that my design skills are lack­ing and have tried to find more tal­ented part­ners when work­ing on projects that require interfaces.

Last week, the first site was launched on the Courant News plat­form. There are still a slew of tem­plate bugs that I’m work­ing through, but the plat­form has per­formed admirably over the past week. It cur­rently uses a more-or-less stock Django admin inter­face with the grap­pelli skin. How­ever, the ulti­mate goal is that of the dig­i­tal news­room and Nando.

The Job

I am seek­ing a web/UX designer to work with me on design­ing the Nando inter­face. For those not famil­iar, Nando is the code­name for the admin inter­face in the Courant News pub­lish­ing plat­form for col­lege news sites; it com­bines stan­dard CRUD con­tent man­age­ment with a dig­i­tal news­room and the abil­ity to man­age an organization’s site from the web inter­face with­out touch­ing code. For full details, you can read through the spec and the first round of com­mu­nity com­ments.

Because Courant News is an open source project, we don’t have the money to pay a huge amount for this work, but I am will­ing to work out mon­e­tary and other forms of com­pen­sa­tion and nego­ti­ate terms of the work with inter­ested indi­vid­u­als. When Nando is com­plete, Courant News will rep­re­sent one of the best options for col­lege news sites who embrace the web-first men­tal­ity and want to push the bound­aries of online jour­nal­ism; by work­ing on design­ing Nando, your mark will be left on all of these endeav­ors and will touch mem­bers of the next gen­er­a­tion of journalists.

Con­tact Me

So if you are inter­ested or have ques­tions, please send me an email (max­cut­ler AT gmail DOT com) or find me on AIM (S/N: Goaliexam).