Lee Gustin Creative Design - Freelance Web, Print, and Brand Design

We all know how important the design brief is when starting out a new design project. A good brief shows you the right path to take and assures that you reach the destination on time. Instead, a badly written brief or worse, no brief, sends you on the road with no map, which will make it difficult for you to reach the destination and not to mention the time wasted on the road.

A new tool has been launched this week to help designers get complete and effective briefs from their clients. It’s called BrieFix and it seems like a useful application for the briefing process. It’s really easy and intuitive for designers to set it up and you may also install it on your website and personalize it with your own logo and color scheme. Another great thing is that you may take it on your own domain, so that clients never feel like they leave your website.

You may set a compilation of questions for logo projects, one for website projects and so on, according to the services you offer. And it’s pretty awesome that you will get all the briefs into one single place, organized by project type, so you no longer have to worry about losing forms or client details on your computer.

What BrieFix aims to do is to help your clients while facing the “daunting” task of creating a design brief. The application is not a simple form, but is rather an interactive and fun tool which aims to “pull out” all the information you need from your clients. For instance, using mood boards and asking your clients to choose logos they like from several sets of images makes it easier for you to get a picture on clients’ design preferences, as visuals communicate things that words cannot.

The Prizes:

Ten (10) winners will each receive a Premium package at BrieFix.com for a 6 month period. That is a $174 value for each winner, totally $1740 worth of stuff!! Even if you don’t win, BrieFix is offering a 30 day free trial of their great app!
Each Premium package includes:

• 15 briefs a month
• 5 compilations a month
• 150MB data storage
• Myname.briefix.com
• Mydomain.com
• Custom branding

How to enter:

• Leave a comment below (something funny/interesting is always a plus)
• Make sure to use a valid email address

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