Show HN: visual search web designers
folioselect.comThis 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
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
very good point, thanks.
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?
The left side menu would slide within the frame to the left to hide the links to the individual desingers.
This seemed to happen a couple of times when I clicked and held the link.
Hope that helps
Download Chrome, try it out?
Works fine in Chrome 14.0.835.163/Mac OS 10.7.1.
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.
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.
this isn't visual search, and this doesn't scale very well. you cant even realistically browse the few limited choices you have very effectively.
id take a step back to a whiteboard and focus on usability and the problem you're trying to solve.
Good idea but your landing page looks like a domain for sale page. The content is not of high quality.
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.