I can't recommend Domo highly enough: http://www.okdomo.com/. Great to work with, incredible design, fairly priced, and they can work with Rails/Django templates easy enough.
Ask HN: Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck?
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Re: Ask HN: Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck?
#12You can try http://www.taurusarts.com/
Re: Ask HN: Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck?
#13I do freelance graphic design while not working on my startup. I don't have an online portfolio because I don't really need one. I worked for FreshBooks ( http://www.freshbooks.com ) up until a month ago. You can also take a look at my startup Guestlist ( http://www.guestlistapp.com ) I specialize in interface design for web applications. My standard rate is $75/hour.
A humble question form design-challenged developer: at $75/hr how long would it take to design a prototype of a site similar to the Guestlist of yours (i.e. what's the total price usually)?
Re: Ask HN: Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck?
#14I can name a couple. Both from Norway, both a joy to work with. Ole Martin Kristiansen: http://piraja.no Does outstanding work, plain and simple. I'm a Django developer, and I've worked with him on a couple of projects. Without prior knowledge to the way Django templates work, he was able to pick up very fast. Has good knowledge of Wordpress. (Full disclosure: I developed the system behind that site) Simon Bognø: htt…
HIRED! (Well, that was easy. I wish I could up-vote this 100 times.)
If you don't mind sharing, which of the three designers mentioned did you hire and why?
Re: Ask HN: Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck?
#15I do freelance graphic design while not working on my startup. I don't have an online portfolio because I don't really need one. I worked for FreshBooks ( http://www.freshbooks.com ) up until a month ago. You can also take a look at my startup Guestlist ( http://www.guestlistapp.com ) I specialize in interface design for web applications. My standard rate is $75/hour.
A humble question form design-challenged developer: at $75/hr how long would it take to design a prototype of a site similar to the Guestlist of yours (i.e. what's the total price usually)?
It would cost around $8-12k for a decent sized website. Our website is pretty small and had the benefit of carrying over a lot of assets from the application itself so 3-4k? I am actually working on evolving the site because I am not happy with where it is right now.
Of course design needs time to bake in the oven. You can't grind out a website every two weeks. I normally design a page and then forget about it for at least a day so I can get a fresh look at it. Sometimes you stumble upon the right design the first time, sometimes you need to go through dozens of ideas. It's all very unpredictable.
For the application itself that is a different story. It is a tremendous amount of work designing a app from the ground up so we are talking 80-100k at least. (I did all the HTML + CSS as well) Took me about a year worth of weekends to get it where it is right now. Being a co-founder I also got to make a lot of decisions without any input so it makes things move a lot faster.
Re: Ask HN: Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck?
#16She's very good and very easy to work with:
http://negarina.com/
Re: Ask HN: Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck?
#17I'd highly, highly, highly recommend: Kim Knight of http://www.kimknightstudios.com/. She does regular work for heavies like IBM, Chase, etc., but is affordable and incredibly professional.
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#18You sound like a programmer that is "difficult."
It also sounds like you're the type of programmer that doesn't treat designers with any respect, so they likely reciprocate -- the type that doesn't like to collaborate, but just boss people around (it's more than apparent from your post that you sneeringly look down upon the design profession). In short, you come across like a huge jerk and I can't imagine what it must be like to work with you.
Let me see, according to you, designers that are "great to work with" (the ones that just shut-up and do whatever you tell them) produce "eye pollution". The ones that are "difficult" (have opinions and give input whether you want to hear it or not) end up producing "incredible work", but you just hate working with them.
Ever consider that the problem might be you?
Re: Ask HN: Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck?
#19more-than-us.com is great, primarily because of their devotion to detail and satisfying the demands of the development process.