+1 for filter by location. I like this. It's very straight-forward, no fluff.
Build It With Me (Connects designers and developers)
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Re: Build It With Me (Connects designers and developers)
#12Two biggest problems with this: 1. The interface is awful and terribly slow. I don't feel like you can have filtering as a "coming soon" feature when the entire service is based around filtering. Also, I don't know what sort of awful JS is used to power the site but it really needs to go. It feels extremely sluggish (which after browsing Drew's other sites seems to be a theme). 2. It's built entirely on trust and ver…
I actually liked the interface except for the header part(specifically the purple-ish colors) and the font rendering (just a disaster). But you're right, it is snail-like slow when loading. Initially I thought it was because it's loading a bunch of users' info and thumbnails (I can scroll down for quite a while), but some people here are saying it loads fine for them, so it might be browser specific. It's also sort of "glitchy." Nonetheless, it's a neat idea.
Re: Build It With Me (Connects designers and developers)
#13you are presenting way too much useless information on the homepage.
The list is useless from user perspective. It's just a list of names and photos. Doesn't tell you anything about the person's experience without clicking the "view description" link
I think a much better approach would be to let users create a custom subject, to describe their idea. You can still display name + photo in user description, but there is no reason for them to be in results.
Re: Build It With Me (Connects designers and developers)
#14I have this idea, just need someone else to to do all the work for 10% share, really it should be easy so if you can't do it in a few hours I'll find someone else.
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#15I like the concept. I'm a developer (web / desktop / mobile / whatever) with minor design skills. If I was to ever do any sort of project on my own, I'd need and want to partner up with a designer. Hell, I actually need an idea too!
But the interface of this site is feels wrong to me. It seems to be assuming that I want to make a really quick (5 minute) decision based on very little information. But choosing to partner with someone is a rather significant event requiring time and research.
Re: Build It With Me (Connects designers and developers)
#16There are a lot of good application/web service ideas floating around freely, which gives the site substance and a makes it really interesting. Great work!
Re: Build It With Me (Connects designers and developers)
#17IE8 destroys the design: http://i.imgur.com/qNEW1.jpg It looks fine in FF, but as a general rule I won't bother using a site that is untested or doesn't support IE (especially without good reason). You're eliminating 70%+ of your potential market in one fell swoop.
I don't understand why you'd cut yourself off from using a product because they choose not to target a certain market.
Re: Build It With Me (Connects designers and developers)
#18I like the concept. I'm a developer (web / desktop / mobile / whatever) with minor design skills. If I was to ever do any sort of project on my own, I'd need and want to partner up with a designer. Hell, I actually need an idea too! But the interface of this site is feels wrong to me. It seems to be assuming that I want to make a really quick (5 minute) decision based on very little information. But choosing to partn…
What I find interesting is that people often seem to feel this way, myself included, but then there are these start-up weekend events where the goal is to build something quickly based on ideas presented in one evening and teams built in a couple hours and people seem to be willing to take that chance without much problem. I wonder what the difference is that people perceive that makes them so cautious in one context but not the other.
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Re: Build It With Me (Connects designers and developers)
#20Two biggest problems with this: 1. The interface is awful and terribly slow. I don't feel like you can have filtering as a "coming soon" feature when the entire service is based around filtering. Also, I don't know what sort of awful JS is used to power the site but it really needs to go. It feels extremely sluggish (which after browsing Drew's other sites seems to be a theme). 2. It's built entirely on trust and ver…
Same here. Although the interface looks nice, it caused my system to hang for a few seconds. This is a high-end PC running Firefox 3.5.5 on ArchLinux. You need to fix this.
Add filtering or at least some pagination.