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Ask YC: Where do you guys find designers for your projects?

12 points by nanijoe 19y ago

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tjic 19y ago
I've gotten recommendations from several people...and none of the recommended designers were all that great. The one I use all the time I met on the general interest town mailing list - we are two libertarians in a sea of Massachusetts Democrats. We ended up getting together for poker first, became friends next, and now we farm out tons of design work to him. Note: no guarantees that this process will work for you.
- ivan 19y ago
  I always thought that Americans are first business partners and then become friends. Your story looks like a strange deviation :)
downer 19y ago
Everywhere -- rip, mix, burn.
- mwerty 19y ago
  huh?
  - e1ven 19y ago
    I believe he's advising to look at the sites that you find attractive- See what elements they have that you can emulate. As someone mentioned in an earlier thread, one easy way to get better at good design is to use good reference designs.
    - mwerty 19y ago
      Thanks. I had a parsing error.
jakewolf 19y ago
I'm using my little brother who owes me a favor and is an awesome designer. Find sites you like, ask who their designer is. csszengarden.com or oswd.org
- brlewis 19y ago
  Look at csszengarden if you have a decent budget. Go to oswd if you're looking for cheap. I'm very happy with a designer I found via csszengarden, but she isn't cheap. I'll write a blog post about the whole process when it's done. Currently ourdoings.com is using a half-finished design from her, because even half finished it's 10x better than what I had before.
  - jakewolf 19y ago
    Can anyone give a range of prices they've paid for designs?
Tichy 19y ago
Found mine on xing. One I found by comparing the works of several designers I found on Xing. Another one found me on Xing when he needed a coder, and in turn I asked him to design.
carpal 19y ago
I've used rentacoder.com in the past and didn't have great results. Now I just tend to do it myself, with mixed results.
- plusbryan 19y ago
  yeah, for whatever reason graphic designers don't tend to congregate there. great for cheap little programming tasks, not so great for original design. I think it has something to do with the fact that you can turn out shoddy code that produces a functional program, whereas shoddy design is immediately apparent that's why a lot of design stuff you get when outsourcing is template-based and replicated across multiple sites.
davidw 19y ago
I found a couple the other week when I took off all the cushions on the couch and looked at the stuff that had fallen down there.
rms 19y ago
http://www.programmermeetdesigner.com/ http://www.programmermeetdesigner.com/

12 points by nanijoe 19y ago

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tjic 19y ago

I've gotten recommendations from several people...and none of the recommended designers were all that great. The one I use all the time I met on the general interest town mailing list - we are two libertarians in a sea of Massachusetts Democrats. We ended up getting together for poker first, became friends next, and now we farm out tons of design work to him. Note: no guarantees that this process will work for you.

ivan 19y ago
I always thought that Americans are first business partners and then become friends. Your story looks like a strange deviation :)

downer 19y ago

Everywhere -- rip, mix, burn.

mwerty 19y ago
huh?
- e1ven 19y ago
  I believe he's advising to look at the sites that you find attractive- See what elements they have that you can emulate. As someone mentioned in an earlier thread, one easy way to get better at good design is to use good reference designs.
  - mwerty 19y ago
    Thanks. I had a parsing error.

jakewolf 19y ago

I'm using my little brother who owes me a favor and is an awesome designer. Find sites you like, ask who their designer is. csszengarden.com or oswd.org

brlewis 19y ago
Look at csszengarden if you have a decent budget. Go to oswd if you're looking for cheap. I'm very happy with a designer I found via csszengarden, but she isn't cheap. I'll write a blog post about the whole process when it's done. Currently ourdoings.com is using a half-finished design from her, because even half finished it's 10x better than what I had before.
- jakewolf 19y ago
  Can anyone give a range of prices they've paid for designs?

Tichy 19y ago

Found mine on xing. One I found by comparing the works of several designers I found on Xing. Another one found me on Xing when he needed a coder, and in turn I asked him to design.

carpal 19y ago

I've used rentacoder.com in the past and didn't have great results. Now I just tend to do it myself, with mixed results.

plusbryan 19y ago
yeah, for whatever reason graphic designers don't tend to congregate there. great for cheap little programming tasks, not so great for original design. I think it has something to do with the fact that you can turn out shoddy code that produces a functional program, whereas shoddy design is immediately apparent that's why a lot of design stuff you get when outsourcing is template-based and replicated across multiple sites.

davidw 19y ago

I found a couple the other week when I took off all the cushions on the couch and looked at the stuff that had fallen down there.

rms 19y ago

http://www.programmermeetdesigner.com/ http://www.programmermeetdesigner.com/