How do you find a web designer for your web startup?

Re:How do you find a web designer for your web startup? by waleedka on Monday April 30, 2007 @12:04AM (#18026)

Anyone knows who the y-comb startups use? Most of them have decent designs and they're on a small budget. What's their secret?

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Re:How do you find a web designer for your web startup? by pg on Monday April 30, 2007 @01:42AM (#18041)

They're all designed by different people. Though in a sense they all use me, since I nag them to fix the more egregious design mistakes.

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Re:How do you find a web designer for your web startup? by waleedka on Monday April 30, 2007 @03:23AM (#18053)

They're lucky, and you're doing a great nagging job.

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Re:How do you find a web designer for your web startup? by randallsquared on Monday April 30, 2007 @01:44AM (#18042)

I think their secret is that YC deliberately tries to choose founders with a certain design sensibility.

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Re:How do you find a web designer for your web startup? by SwellJoe on Monday April 30, 2007 @12:19PM (#18151)

I've noticed this, too.

Wufoo are famously good, and Kevin does all of that work. SocialMoth/Overhear.us have awesome design and Evan does everything. iminlikewithyou.com is tasty (if a bit overly pretty), and I believe they do it in-house, as well. Reddit is great and clean, and Alexis and Steve designed it.

Everyone is swayed by a nice clean design, even technically savvy folks like YC (they also know that a good design can make a good product great, and with bad design the best product will probably fail--MySpace being an obvious and baffling exception to that rule).

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