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IE8 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 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.
IE8 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.
Remember, the prospective audience for this site are developers/designers who are fairly tech savvy (or should be). Someone who is using IE8 (out of choice) shouldn't be there.
To be on topic. The site looks nice and the interface looks awesome, but not for a website. Maybe for a desktop application (specifically mac). It takes too long to load.
I would suggest a more traditional design front ala linkedin (minus everything that is wrong with linkedin).
I 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…
you 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 i…
Have you ever looked at http://fairsoftware.net/publicProjects ?
On sites that you use ten times a day, every day, definitely speed is very important. On something like this that might be used a couple times a year, no.
The real issue is you need to get more useful information onto the front page. The "number of ideas" column is next to useless. What does it mean that a designer has zero ideas? That their head is completely empty? I doubt it. It probably means they aren't necessarily looking to work on a specific project they have in mind. But then, on the other hand, maybe there are some designers who chose '0' because they really, truly, have absolutely no ideas (and, by implication, no creativity). I would want to avoid those. How do I know which are which? I don't. And if the number of ideas listed is 1, 2, or more, similar opportunities for confusion abound. So that column is useless.
I was excited when I saw this, because it's hinting that it may be a good tool... but please bring more detail to the surface. You may need to gather that detail from the users, then present it, I don't know, maybe as CSS display-on-hover windows next to each name, which is debatable as a UI, but better than having to click through.
So say I'm a developer with a good ('good' === 'pays the bills') project, and need a designer, and I am not available, because I'm busy with that good project.
Now I can search for a designer, but a designer cannot find me. Maybe this is intentional; I'm sure some people would prefer it this way. Or maybe it's an oversight in the UI design. It seems like the latter.
I 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…
Just recently a friend of mine had a serious break-down with his designer. This wasn't a partnership relationship, he was contracting the designer. But when the designer flaked out, misappropriated other designs, and disappeared for weeks that ended up costing my friend a lot of time and money.
Ideas have little value, but it'd be interesting to profile them.