Don’t use photos of people pointing at computers. You’ve come up with a brilliant startup idea, and perhaps have even completed the site, but at this point it’s just working wireframes. It’s ugly. It’s time to employ your design skills to make it appeal to people. But…
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When I went through 99Designs to get the logo for Startup Next Door, in my proposal I requested that the designers either provide a vector image or a layered PSD with a large DPI (at least 300). By requesting one of these formats, I can be assured that I can use the image on large-format printing…
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In my last post, I explained how 99Designs works. Now I’ll tell you a little more about how it worked for me, some advice on getting good results, and some of the controversy about using such a service. My Experience I had heard about 99Designs a while back, and wanted to try it out. When I…
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When I came up with the concept of this site in early 2009, I was coming across many services that effectively outsourced tasks that you would normally hire someone to do. One of these tasks is logo design. Update (Feb 1, 2016): I’m no longer using the logo on the site. There are hundreds,…
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