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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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Crowdspring or 99designs?
For crowd sourcing basically there are two main contenders, crowdspring and 99designs. I know they are both good and we can't go wrong with either one, but I am sure we can find out which one is ...
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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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How Important Is Branding For a Startup? Should I Bring In Outside Help?
How important is branding for early stage startups?
Within this question, there is some interesting discussion on how a brand can evolve based on everything you do - e.g. your name, website, online ...
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What constitutes a good dashboard?
Dashboards are the 1st screen to welcome users for the 1st time or everytime they use your web app. What are examples of web apps with good dashboard? What do you want in a dashboard? Do you guys have ...
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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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Hire or outsource web design?
When building a website in a bootstrapped startup, is it better to hire a web designer or outsource the work? All of the founders are coders and don't excel in web design. Apart from that, if the ...
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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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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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Tools for web mockups, “wire-framing”
I'm looking for a tool that'll help me create sketches/mockups of web pages. I'm not talking about the "photo-realistic" sets of PSD's that break everything down into components. I'm not looking at ...
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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 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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Usability: Looking for your thoughts on Categories and Tags
That's right. I often have mixed emotions on this one. Let's say we have some type of site that profiles different items. For example, the latest thing over the past few years is tagging... and it's ...
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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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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 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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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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What qualification and/or skills should I look for while hiring a web designer?
I am about to launch a website, which I got created through a freelancer. However, I am not very pleased with freelancer's performance and plan to hire someone full-time to make required iterations in ...
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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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Looking for a wordpress template for a website? [closed]
I am looking for a WordPress template to use specifically for purposes of building a website for a consulting firm. Not a blog. Most of the templates I find are designed for blogs. Do you guys know of ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Web design business: specializing vs being generic?
We are about to renew our HOME PAGE, we sell websites, we are web designers.
From your experience,what do you suggest to enphasize most on our HOME PAGE, we are struggling to decide whether to:
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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 ...
