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Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by pragmagic on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @07:11AM (#3017106)
This 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

Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by ed209 on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @09:04AM (#3017345)
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

Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by yannick on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @09:18AM (#3017385)
very good point, thanks.
Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by PeterMcCanney on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @06:35AM (#3017026)
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

Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by yannick on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @07:00AM (#3017088)
Thanks for taking the time to give feedback. Could you say what was behaving badly in Chrome so we can fix it?
Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by PeterMcCanney on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @04:57AM (#3021275)
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

Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by Torn on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @07:45AM (#3017163)
Download Chrome, try it out?
Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by viktorsr on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @10:52AM (#3017762)
Works fine in Chrome 14.0.835.163/Mac OS 10.7.1.
Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by ThomPete on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @06:37AM (#3017031)
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.
Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by 8ig8 on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @07:27AM (#3017131)
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.
Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by earle on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @12:30PM (#3018237)
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.

Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by darwindeeds on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @09:54AM (#3017518)
Good idea but your landing page looks like a domain for sale page. The content is not of high quality.
Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by prawn on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @06:40AM (#3017035)
Aware of Sortfolio?
Re:Show HN: visual search web designers by yannick on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @07:02AM (#3017094)
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.