Joy To Use

Joy To Use is a design focused company that works on two fronts: it connects talented designers to career opportunities, and it supplies skilled design consultants to teams that need experience design expertise on a project. On the hiring side the company is explicit about why it exists, noting that hiring experience designers is a challenging task because the field is vast and ever changing, designers hold very different experience and areas of expertise, and a candidate who does well in one environment may not do well in another. Joy To Use offers to help companies find good people and build a happy design team, and runs parallel routes on its site for companies looking to hire and for designers looking for their next role.

The company's method is called talent pairing, and it is built on the position that building a happy team is not a one-size-fits-all exercise. Talent pairing sets out to understand the needs of both the company and the potential candidate holistically. In practice that means Joy To Use takes careful account of a client company's current landscape, its culture and its vision, then pairs those against a candidate who believes the company aligns with their technical ability, their personality and their future aspirations. The result the company is aiming at is a design team that works, rather than a filled vacancy.

Alongside recruitment, Joy To Use runs a consulting arm for organisations that need design expertise on a live project, on the basis that creating meaningful and relevant products requires it. Once the company understands a client's ambition, it supports the project with design consultants spanning several areas of specialisation: user experience, user interface, product design, service design, research and content writing. The stated goal of that work is an efficient and enjoyable experience for the client's product, and the company invites organisations to hire a design consultant or a full design team through its get in touch page.