Daniel Maw Co-Founder Hacksaw Studio

Daniel Maw Co-Founder Hacksaw Studio had a punt on what course to take in college and liked web design and development and carried it on to university. He did two years and went out for a year in the industry – a sandwich course – as a paid intern and return for graduating year. It was his sandwich year in which Hacksaw began. It provided Daniel with real world experience.

Daniel is the Development Director for Hacksaw Studio. He calls himself the parent of the developing children. He oversees the developers as they make these amazing designs come into a working product.

Daniel Maw and Organizing Team  Workflow

Hacksaw has restructured their studio. During growth they looked at who they needed to communicate with the most. Who would they be asking the most questions of. At first there was lots of yelling from one end of the room to the other and lots of walking around. As employees were added they changed things around.

Designers are on one side of the room and the developers are on the other but that actually just means looking around a screen to chat.

Daniel’s favorite way to chat is getting people out of the office. he frequently takes workers into separate rooms and throwing things out on a table. They draw it out on paper and get down to how to make a project move forward.

Daniel makes sure his employees have the right tools for the jobs. Not just software or technical but also for communication efficiency. He loves Boomerang for their office email communications.

Daniel and Hacksaw love to use Slack as a great way to get around emails and works well on mobile devices. You can avoid the email trail and trying to find specific messages.

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Daniel’s favorite projects are on-line and off-line both. They needed to develop an interior design look to a huge outdoor display. it was fun as they put it together with their website.

For a local brewery they re-branded, created labels, cans and t-shirts for their client. For Daniel that is his favorite type of project when they are involved in so much.

Daniel and Hacksaw are an international award-winning Top 40 agency as chosen by a creative UK magazine.

Daniel Maw – You Have to Sell Yourself

There are so many design and development companies today and you have to stand out because they are doing a great job. You have to sell yourself. You have proven you can do the work but you have got to gel. You must grow and flourish into a great business relationship.

The better the relationship the better the end project. The better the relationship the more frank you can be with them. You can throw ideas and if they have an idea but you need to tweak it, it’s still their idea but you have the relationship to pitch it in a different way that makes it work for the client. Daniel says twisting the idea with experience and knowledge is the big tipping point that gels business relationships.

If you want to learn more about or connect with Daniel Maw Co-Founder Hacksaw Studio, check out his links below and remember he welcomes all questions, comments and inquiries! Don’t forget to mention you heard about Daniel on Stop Riding the Pine:-)

Hacksaw Studio Website

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Daniel Maw on Twitter

Hacksaw on Twitter