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Design Inc. — High quality design work on demand from hand-picked talent
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@rrhoover Thank you Ryan! The Design Critiques have been especially insightful, even though they only last an hour, we have seen designers make a big impact through feedback around product strategy, navigation and general UX issues, helping to say "no" to bad ideas and features - I'm pretty sure some of these design crits have saved some product teams months of unnecessary engineering work, or at the very least provided an objective sounding board with no emotional ties to what has been designed or built thus far.
@hemeon interesting to see more talent moving toward a remote, freelance lifestyle. Gigster 3.0 has a similar model for engineers. Maybe you and @rogerdickey should partner up. 🤔
@rrhoover @rogerdickey you bet! Roger feel free to reach out - would love to chat!
@kevinrose @hemeon awesome to see this
I'm a big believer in these types of on-demand businesses.
Nice to see a real focus on quality here. What is the vetting process of accepting designers?
How many designers are there to hire on the platform already?
@bentossell @kevinrose Ben! thanks for your the questions - currently I lead portfolio reviews - we typically live stream them (in fact someone wrote about them here: https://uxdesign.cc/your-design-... we have had thousands of applicants so the reviews can be a bit brutal and fast. We dont talk about the number of designers on the platform but we have plenty to support a marketplace.
Love this. Congrats on the launch @hemeon ... great resource for anyone looking to get top notch design eyes on their products
@mazzeo Thanks for the shoutout Matt! - excited to launch more services that provide a wider breadth of design services for startups and folks building digital products. You have been a wonderful sounding board and helpful advisor over the last year - thanks again for being so willing to give of your time.
People always ask how to hire a good designer and my answer is usually, "It is basically impossible." Glad to see you attacking this problem.
@taylorhughes hahaha - changing our tagline "Unicorns do exist, you just need a Unicorn finder, welcome to Design Inc."
This is great! Mega-congrats on the launch team Design, Inc. I often find myself using design marketplaces, like 99d, for brand identity but wishing I had my hands on something that took a lot of leg work out of finding great/vetted designers who love what they do & respect the process.
Great timing. We're looking to dramatically improve my wife's brand identity. We may run in this direction sometime in the next couple of months! Looking forward to seeing this evolve.
Best of luck with the launch!
@xmcgraw David! great to see you again sir! Really excited to hear your feedback, please reach out if there is any questions you may have!
Had the pleasure of meeting Marc and Joshua when they held open office hours in San Francisco last spring and the design and product feedback they gave me was invaluable. Affordable, quality design is something that even small, stingy, bootstrapping startups cannot skip and your new service could be a great solution. I do wish that you had included prices (or a range of prices) for the various packages and options (or maybe you did and I missed them?)
Anyway, best of luck! Looks like a great service!
@hagit Hi Hagit!!! really great hearing from you again! glad you found us again - so go to Desinginc.com > then select Design Critiues > then Pair with Designer give that a try and then you will see a bunch of designers who are offering that service and their prices - hope that helps!
There are very few people over the last 5 years that have helped me more to land solid clients and overall great design opportunities than @hemeon. He's a good dude and the perfect fit for a business like this and I am stoked to see the launch. Congrats Marc!
Awesome to see Marc & team fill a crucial hole to help all makers build great products that people love ❤️ Nice work guys!
@anncaryn We appreciate you Ann! you have the honor of being one of the first Design Inc. customers btw so we are REALLY thankful to you!
This is great! We've needed a service that makes thoughtful design-driven critiques easily accessible for customers. What an exciting step forward! I'm looking forward to contributing to the community through it! Congrats, @hemeon!
@cdavis565 Here! here! We have tons of design services we want to build out - for example things like "visual design and style guide from wireframes" or "product design audit" and of course more classic services like Illustration, pitch decks, content market etc.
@hemeon @zinssmeister Looking good guys, I've been really looking forward to the official launch...exciting such a great team taking this on!
@nicholassheriff @zinssmeister right on Nicolas, we do have a really strong team - they deserve props! please let us know how we can help!
Good day everyone! We are very excited to share Design Inc. with you today. Our broad mission is to bring great design to the world by making design easy to understand and obtain. We have launched with our first two design services - Logos, Brands and Visual Identity package and Design Critiques. We have many more design services on the roadmap, including services focused more around user experience and user interface design. Would love to answer any questions you may have.
@hemeon Congrats on the launch, Marc! Hoping to get accepted soon and see how it compares to TopTal, Crew, Gigster, etc.
congrats on the launch @hemeon! have you thought about adding some sort of design feedback loop? personally, i'd be a lot more inclined to pay the $16.5K if i wasn't just paired with a designer, but if the work he or she comes up with also receives feedback/suggestions/tweaks from multiple designers on your service. so that when it comes back to me as a client i'm mentally assured that the logo, brand, and identity are the best they possibly can be given the multiple perspectives gone into it and not just the subjective opinion of 1 designer
@arjunkmehta So whats interesting here is we have built a community behind the scenes for the designers on design inc. they share work with each other, get feedback privately form one another and really support one another. For me, I charge around $8k for a logo with a usage and branding guide and all the corresponding social media and marketing assets - I've done quite a bit of branding work for the last 20 years and I can say with confidence wether you hire me or someone else on the platform you will get every pennies worth of value that you invest on Design Inc. / Design can truly be make a huge difference in your product or service
Congrats on the launch, looks real nice. Looking forward to testing this out on a project!
@apcommunicate @skurt Aaron! thank you for the kind words! hope you are well and please come visit again soon. We really appreciate your kindness and support.
As someone who's searched for designers many times, I highly suggest you show more than 3 designers to each person. Three recommendations might work when recommending a very commoditized offering like legal work, but I don't think it's enough for design and caused me to leave your product unfortunately!
@xjawz Hi Sam, as a former YouTuber I applaud your Channel - great work! You can go back and select a design service and get new results, but for now we are pretty set on just offering 3 at a time - any of these designers would crush it for you and do a great job. Hope you give us another shot in the future!
@hemeon Thanks! And got it, good to know. I'll take another look. I liked the offerings, and trusted those guys would be great, so maybe it's just that I've spent so much time Dribbble that I enjoy browsing through portfolios a bit too much, haha.
By the way, I think the product is awesome overall, and especially like the idea of design reviews! Realized my first comment may have sounded mean, I just wanted to give honest feedback because I know that's often gold to a founder.
P.S. Another idea, maybe only show logo/branding/visual identity stuff work from designers when that's what I selected I'm looking for, wasn't really interested in looking at the designer's UI work when looking to have a logo made and wish I just saw more logos.
@xjawz Totally - we are adding tagging and some other abilities for the designers to properly currate their portfolios so their work matches the services and we can do a better job when we show pair results to also share work that matches that service.
@airjoshb Appreciate you Josh! Let me know if I can connect you with any particular designers you want to do a Crit. with :)
Super excited to be an early member of Design Inc. Great early product and I'm looking forward to seeing it develop and evolve from here. Congrats @hemeon!
Hey congrats on the relaunch @hemeon (+ @zinssmeister, @mkadenbach et al)! Everything looking super great.
Now that I'm full-time freelance I'm looking forward to seeing the services expand from here. Plans to push out into more product / project based chunks or is that too big for the commodity focus you've got going on?
@buckwilson @zinssmeister @mkadenbach we have a strategy to chunk up product design - its the one feature we think is going to really set this platform apart - more soon.
Any chance of adding copywriting talent? :) Obviously I'm a bit biased, but copy is a huge complement to UX/UI, which so many companies/apps gloss over.
@krisryanwhite Kris stay tuned, many more wonderful services coming to Design Inc. soon :)
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