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while i applaud your charity efforts, i want to let all those non-designers understand how design contest driven sites like 99designs hurt the design industry a
by joelackner 16y ago
while i applaud your charity efforts, i want to let all those non-designers understand how design contest driven sites like 99designs hurt the design industry as a whole.
to put it in perspective for programmers, it's like submitting a completed project (or at least a functional beta) with no guarantee of payment. it's up to the client to pick the best "code" and all the others lose their time/money.
for more info on how this is hurting designers: http://www.no-spec.com/ http://www.no-spec.com/
- jerguismi 16y agoNobody forces anyone to enter those contents. Get over with it.
- joelackner 16y agoi'm only here to educate others on the business model and to stick up for the health of my industry.
- watty 16y agoI don't think you're educating anyone. It's a free market, what's the problem with buying a Corolla over a BMW? Everyone and their mother (including mine) have a website now. 95% of those people don't need a professional design which is why sites like 99designs work.
- joelackner 16y agoi don't feel your analogy works at all. if only 1 out of 20 designers (i'm just guessing at the average number of submitted concepts per contest) are getting paid for their work they are submitting, then 19 are losing out: it's called spec work. cheap is not spec.