Pros
Free drinks and snacks. Free breakfast everyday. Discount on movies and gym membership. Interesting, diverse group of people.
Cons
If you’re serious about design, advancing your craft and career, then beware: Indiegogo is a dead end. Management possesses zero experience in branding, below-mediocre design competence, and enables an uninspired mindset in designers to make haste—because of poor project management—rather than positioning them to create with intentionality, polish, and efficiency. The design team thus lacks a structure for success: no vision, no design system, no pixel school and is given inept hands-on design direction. The result is clunky UX, incohesive (and comical) art direction, and poor execution of craft throughout—basically, work that’s not to be proud of. And for a critical touchpoint to IGG's brand development, its design presents a deaf ear to resonating with users for what should be a space that honors their ideas, dreams, causes, investment, and community-thinking. The designers here are at unfortunate risk, not only handicapped from doing good work and advancing their skills but from growing their careers and earnings—their livelihoods, after all. Better days are promised, but that rhetoric is never convincing. Time is limited and being wasted; the competition will not wait for management to all of a sudden become adept at design and branding (and nor should the designers expect to continue waiting). And that possibility is pointless anyway, because strong design management is not built from giving authority and responsibility to unskilled people. So, what to do?