Show HN: visual search web designers

#1

Post by yannick » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 9:59 AM UTC

Show HN: visual search web designers
folioselect.com

Re: Show HN: visual search web designers

#2

Post by PeterMcCanney » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 10:35 AM UTC

Needs a lot of work. The pages behave badly in Chrome and a lot of the images displayed dead.

A specific link for Web Designers on the home page would be a good idea

Re: Show HN: visual search web designers

#3

Post by ThomPete » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 10:37 AM UTC

This is a potentially great idea. But you really really need to find better designers. With the exception of a few most of those where horrible to say the least.

Re: Show HN: visual search web designers

#4

Post by prawn » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 10:40 AM UTC

Aware of Sortfolio?

Re: Show HN: visual search web designers

#5

Post by yannick » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 11:00 AM UTC

PeterMcCanney wrote: post #2

Needs a lot of work. The pages behave badly in Chrome and a lot of the images displayed dead. A specific link for Web Designers on the home page would be a good idea

Thanks for taking the time to give feedback. Could you say what was behaving badly in Chrome so we can fix it?

Re: Show HN: visual search web designers

#6

Post by yannick » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 11:02 AM UTC

prawn wrote: post #4

Aware of Sortfolio?

yes! but (I think) it's only for agencies and that tends to be too expensive for many projects- here we're trying to also show individuals.

Re: Show HN: visual search web designers

#7

Post by pragmagic » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 11:11 AM UTC

This is potentially very useful. Some quick feedback:

- As PeterMcCanney said, it needs a link for web designers (maybe even interface designers?). It works fine for me in Chrome however (Linux)

- It looks like all the designers are from odesk? Could you open it up to others too?

- Some sort/filter options would be nice. Just something simple like sort by media budget and filter by country

Re: Show HN: visual search web designers

#8

Post by 8ig8 » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 11:27 AM UTC

I recommend showing some portfolios from each category on the home page. The visitor is hit with a bland wall of text when first arriving.

Re: Show HN: visual search web designers

#9

Post by Torn » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 11:45 AM UTC

yannick wrote: post #5

PeterMcCanney wrote: post #2

Needs a lot of work. The pages behave badly in Chrome and a lot of the images displayed dead. A specific link for Web Designers on the home page would be a good idea

Thanks for taking the time to give feedback. Could you say what was behaving badly in Chrome so we can fix it?

Download Chrome, try it out?

Re: Show HN: visual search web designers

#10

Post by ed209 » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 1:04 PM UTC

I think the tag line on the home page is misleading: discover rockstar creative talent

I spent about 4 minutes browsing and only saw below average portfolios. If you want a service like this to take off then you need to be absolutely ruthless about who you list.

Talent attracts talent Bad talent attracts bad talent