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One page or multi page site / app
I am wondering whether to have a one page site design that is en vogue at the moment or a more traditional layout.On a long one-page design it seems that I can work the user through the AIDA ...
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How can I communicate the business goals of my app to my designer
I am working with a designer on an app. I am concerned about achieving the business goals of the app. How can I be sure to communicate these to the designer? How much can I expect the designer to ...
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What do VCs look for?
I'm writing an article on a San Francisco startup competition featuring the young Japanese entrepreneur finalists (eventbrite info here) and was wondering what investors and judges are looking for ...
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New Design company- do I include old freelance work as part of portfolio
I am starting a design studio after doing freelance and employed work for a number of years. When pitching to new clients on behalf of the new studio, is in acceptable to refer to my old work, and if ...
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What percentage to give UI/UX designer co-founder? [duplicate]
This is a general question for company shares:
My partner and I have an equal stake in our company. We want to bring in a designer since both of us suck at UI. We have one in mind.
Since we own the ...
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Book Publication Graphic Design Legal Advice
A) I have sent a copy of my manuscript to a graphic designer I wanted to work with without an NDA/ any form of contract signed. I now no longer want to work with him. I have evidence that the ...
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What are techniques to elicit requirements from customers who don't understand their needs?
Question:
How do you prevent a situation where you have to produce work-product work first and get client feedback before getting on the right track to meet their needs?
Are there techniques to help ...
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Recommended courses for a social network co-founder
I am a social network co-founder who recently relocated to NYC area. Apart from focusing on the social network start up, I am trying to take some courses at columbia or NYU. The issue is this -
I am ...
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Is it smart to use remote programmers/web designers for my first startup social networking site?
I have the option of using remote staff individually at a cheaper rate, however I am considering using a local company that has a team because I can sit down with them and explain what I need on an ...
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Freelance Designers “Quality”- Portfolio vs. Results
I am in the process of hiring a designer that has good portfolio material. The problem i always run into is the fact that many designers will highlight their best work and that is what initially draws ...
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Setting A Price Range for A Custom Website Design
sorry if this is the wrong area to be posting this, but after looking through the other various stackexchange sites, I thought this one was most suitable for my question.
I'm a first year university ...
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0.5% equity and 2k/month to be the #1 CDO in a startup
I really need your help.
It 's the first time I've been asked to work for a startup.
The company has already been made, founded by 2 partners, and has already received an initial investment, but has ...
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how to pitch design as a competitive advantage
I'm building software for corporate customers and the space I'm in has several established competitors. Luckily, their design simply sucks. Think of the difference between using a smartphone circa ...
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What steps should be taken to create a “sustainable” web design (as opposed to graphic design) startup company?
I'm interested in determining the steps needed to create a 'sustainable' startup in web design, which should be somewhat different from graphic design firms. Topics include computing energy cost of ...
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Where to look for inspiration when designing product/company website?
To begin with, let me say that "hire a designer" is not really an answer. Problem is, I will still have to evaluate and accept or reject whatever he or she creates. Personally I would go with a ...
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Should I really worry about the UI of my iPhone app?
My iPhone app is in the final polish stage. I have been designing it using pretty much standard iPhone UI elements. Now as this will hit the crowd soon, by looking at other apps in the store, I am a ...
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Any opinions on the latest wireframing tool contenders to Balsamiq? [closed]
One of my contractors uses flairbuilder, and I'm interested if any of you have heard of it or other competitors to Balsamiq? There was a thread on wireframing tools from almost two years ago, and I ...
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Venues to reach/hire freelancers cross-country
I'm a design agency who does client-work through freelancers, and I'm looking to hire/partner with people in other states and work with them remotely to expand my reach to cross-country. Think ...
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How can I get a multimedia video designed for my company?
In order to build our website we need to create a short 1 minute video about our project similar to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCHhwxvQqxg.
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How does a startup get a lot of Facebook fans?
I have a Facebook fan page for my startup and I'm looking to increase the numbers of fans. What are some techniques for acquiring real, legitimate fans?
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Is T-shirt Design Industry Oversaturated or still in fancy?
T-shirt design has always been a foray for graphic designers but is it still a good business to earn good profits, good means really good. Innovation is needed but still.
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Best online places to find UX/UI designers?
A local start up team here in Taiwan is looking for mobile application UX & UI specialists... but here on the ground while there are great designers not many have mobile UX experience.
If they're ...
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Where can I find some help on designing packaging for retail sales of our product?
Graphic designers typically charge big bucks to create a packaging concept. Then there is the cost of packaging materials that can sometimes cost as much or more than the product. Does anyone have a ...
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Home page for a B2B site
I am designing the landing page for a B2B site and want to demonstrate the steps involved in using the product with images. For example, if the sequence of events is 1) User emails us something 2) The ...
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How many pages do I need designed?
I have just finished my wireframe, and am about to contact designers to get some mockups done. My wireframe is about 20 pages in total, yet only 5 or 6 of the pages are significantly different from ...
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Is there any platform on which I can find a developer/designer for my project?
Is there any platform where we can find developer/designer or where designer and developers collaborate and contribute. There are lot of website where this things happens but they are much like a ...
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On what should I pay attention when letting someone design my website?
So I have an idea for a new website. I worked it out into great detail but unfortunately I cannot design it myself (only have some basic html knowledge). At first my plan was to learn and design it on ...
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At a crossroads-Whether to launch or seek more time/funding for more development
I have spent considerable resources on the development of a networking/eCommerce site and have since changed my focus on the core idea for the business to the extent that the website is not 100% what ...
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Where can I get a designer?
For my startup (web 2 SaaS) I am looking for a good designer, probably with HTML/JavaScript skills. It seems this is pretty difficult - all good people have jobs. So I am thinking about remote work. I ...
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Is it possible to setup a contract between two parties without being responsible for mistreatment
I recently started http://www.weekendhacker.net in which one of the ideas is to allow designers and developers to barter deals between them.
Currently I am referring them to http://foundrs.com/ but ...
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In designing a new product is important to look modern (post 2.0)?
I've got a short snappy name and url, an end user focused mobile app/service that uses user generated content and a wireframe of a minimum viable product that I'm pretty happy with. I'm in the process ...
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How do I share a startup reasonably?
I posted on Craig's List looking for help developing an idea into a web app. Since there's no money/funding/compensation the thinking is we would take a percentage of the company and the income it ...
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Sign up form on front page of site?
Is it OK to put a sign-up form on the front page of our site? (rinnku.com)
I got feedback from one user that we should remove the form so we could move the "recently shared bookmarks" section up.
I ...
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Do I need a web designer or developer/programmer?
I have an idea for a web startup. I really feel that it doesn't need any complicated technology, can I just use a designer instead of developer? And if I do, and my website proves popular and I want ...
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What avenues have people used for logo design?
What avenues have people used for logo design?
Has anyone had any problems with a certain method/website/service that I should be aware of?
Thanks
-Mark
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For Branding, should I create my logo first, or do the logo as part of the website design?
I am about to start the branding process of one of our products. There is an interest among the stakeholders for this product to have a separate identity, and they will pay for it. My question, is, ...
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startup service design - launch early with mediocre design or later with “perfect” design?
Have a look at the following layouts for some well known services:
http://www.syncplicity.com/
http://gowalla.com/
http://foursquare.com/
http://www.mint.com/026d/
https://cheddargetter.com/
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Legal Issues Building a GMail like Application?
I'm building a product which I hope to sell as Software as a Service. I've been working on designs of interfaces and have landed in something pretty similar to GMail interface. I think my app is ...
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What are the best design principles to foster participation and engagement with an online solution?
If you have an online solution to a particular problem and there are a number of competitors in your market, how can you design the experience in such a way that your solution will win the customer's ...
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Design template for a SaaS website
Where can I purchase a professional looking, Web 2.0 styled template for a subscription service website. I'd need the PSD, the HTML, images and the styles.
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How do I make my website look more Web 2.0?
I am not a designer and with my limited design skills, I put together a website that doesn't look anything close to a professional site. I'd like to redesign my site to look more like other Web 2.0 ...
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How do I find an equity partner for my running start-up business?
I have an internet based business that is up and running. So far I have 556 paying clients that have used our service with no marketing dollars spent to date. It is a working concept that needs more ...
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Logo size on Website for Branding
I am currently designing the website for a new startup. I have 2 options (so far) for the size of the logo.
Put it in the same spot as the "StackExchange" dropdown at the top of this page. It ...
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Premium Wordpress Theme recommendation?
I am looking for a premium Wordpress theme for a site about fashion.
I want it to look very good.
So far I have found this one which looks pretty good to me:
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Where can I find site or wordpress themes based on call to action?
I would like to find themes based on the call to action I need - for example, I need a theme with an email signup as the main call to action - any one know of a themes website?
Should I build one? ...
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Site for web designers + developers to share equity?
There was a site I found a while ago, where someone with an idea could post it (either a designer or a developer), and they could locate 'the other half' (i.e. a designer looking for a developer), and ...
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How can I improve my conversion rate?
We've yet to start beta, as we would first like a large user base to start with. But our conversion rate to sign up for beta isn't the best. Any advice on that front is appreciated.
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New user signup process on a global website
What is the best way to handle signups for new users when you want them to register anonymously but identify their country, city and Zip/Postal code? Some countries don't have postal codes. I would ...
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How much time should we spend on the technical documentation/design?
So I'm in a little bit of a tug of war with some other cofounders on our project. We've just started out after spending alot of time on the BP and that side of things. The other developer/cofounders ...
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Software / Web development for creating a website to serve a two-sided market
I have subject matter expertise in a specialized field of design. I want to create a two-sided market between customers who need these specific design services and designers who have those skills. I ...
