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DesignCrowd's Newest Customer Feature - The Voting Poll!

DesignCrowd's Newest Customer Feature - The Voting Poll!

Jo Sabin - Tuesday, February 1, 2011

DesignCrowd's voting/polling tool helps customers get opinions and votes on the designs they receive. This allows project owners to create their own online voting poll of their favourite designs from their contest and get feedback and rankings from their peers and friends.  Read more

Widget designer contest winner (+ cool widget examples)

Widget designer contest winner (+ cool widget examples)

DesignCrowd - Thursday, October 7, 2010

We're pleased to announce the winner of our designer widgetcontest as Harry Jay (of HarryJay.org)!Harry's widget received over 500 views in September and as the most viewed widget he'll receive "200 large" (i.e.$200)!1st Place $200 Widget Contest: Harry JayWe'd love to see more designers using widget so please add them to your websites. Here's somegreat examples of Read more

DesignCrowd grows 797% in 12 months

DesignCrowd grows 797% in 12 months

DesignCrowd - Thursday, October 7, 2010

In addition to the stellar growth of our graphic designer community, we're very pleased to announce that the DesignCrowd business is going gangbusters too!  In the last 12 months we've grown the number of projects on our website by a whoping 797%!Check out our excellent / exponential growth chart:Snap! *Does a Snoop Dogg dance*This growth is thanks to 1) our popular and  Read more

20,000 designers - woot woot!

20,000 designers - woot woot!

DesignCrowd - Thursday, October 7, 2010

DesignCrowd is proud to announce that in early October we signed up graphic designer number 20,000 (as of today we have 20,311 graphic designers - see our graphic designer directory)!  Even more amazing is that these 20,000 designers come from 140 different countries!  Most of our designers (65%) come from 'The big 5' - the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and India - but we also boast des Read more

Simple 'Hire me' designer widget for new designers

Simple 'Hire me' designer widget for new designers

DesignCrowd - Tuesday, September 14, 2010

If you are a new designer (perhaps with no designs in your portfolio and no customer feedback) you can create a basic 'Hire me' widget. Here's what a basic 'Hire me' widget looks like: Powered by DesignCrowd - Graphic Design Services Powered by DesignCrowd - Logo Design These widgets do not require you to have any designs in your portfolio so far!  Here's how you create a basic  Read more

Designer My Profile Updated

Designer My Profile Updated

DesignCrowd - Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Over the past few weeks we have been actively been asking designers what they would like to see in their my profile page. As such, we have been busy implementing as many of these feature requests as possible and we wanted to put a quick blog post detailing some of the changes (there are still more to come).Here's some of the changes we made: New look page with sidebar Move the watchlist to i Read more

Show us your widget

Show us your widget

DesignCrowd - Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Have you ever submitted a bunch of designs to DesignCrowd and wished they automatically showed up on your personal website? Or maybe you are jumping up our designer rankings and would like to advertise this outside of DesignCrowd? Well we've heard you! Here at the DesignCrowd labs we have been coming up with unique ideas, tools and widgets to assist you in promoting yourself to the rest of  Read more

Participation payment changes

Participation payment changes

DesignCrowd - Saturday, June 5, 2010

As of yesterday (with the introduction of new paid invite system and new designer portfolios) participation payments now work differently.  While each design contest is open to everyone, participation payments are essentially invite only.  They will be funelled to designers that customers like and select through designer profile Read more

Graphic Designer Directory and Designer Portfolios - Now Live!

Graphic Designer Directory and Designer Portfolios - Now Live!

DesignCrowd - Saturday, June 5, 2010

*Drum roll* ... the DC team is extremely proud to unveil brand new graphic designer directory!We have launched directories for each of our product categories.  Here are some examples: Graphic designers Logo designers Web page designers etc etc etc ... We also have directories for countries.  Here's a few examples: Graphic design Australia  Read more

Hybrid Crowdsourcing

Hybrid Crowdsourcing

DesignCrowd - Saturday, June 5, 2010

Yesterday, DesignCrowd launched a new form of crowdsourcing - hybrid crowdsourcing.  Its key feature is this: customers can invite specific designers to work on their design projects via paid invites and AT THE SAME TIME open their design contest up to any designer around the world who wants to submit a design. Here's how it works:  Customer browses our graphic designer directory and selects d Read more

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