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Ask HN: Looking for a great Web Site Designer. Who do you recommend?

8 points by yalimgerger ↗ HN
Hi,

We are Gerger (www.gerger.co), the creators of Formspider (www.theformspider.com), the Web 2.0 framework for Oracle PL/SQL developers. We are preparing a new version of our product and we would like to renew our product web site www.theformspider.com along with it.

Our product Formspider is for a specific group of developers namely, the Oracle PL/SQL developers. It's mainly used in mid to large size companies to build Budgeting, Accounting, Order Management, HR, ERP etc.. software.

Current Web site was done by us a year and a half ago. It's nice but building web sites is not our focus. The site is also showing its age.

Formspider impresses our users with its simple and elegant design. It is perceived as an unusually high quality, very innovative product built with care and attention to detail. We would like our new web site reflect these facts.

We want a simple yet beautiful design in our web site. Readable large fonts, excellent copyright, gorgeous pictures, icons and screen shots should provide a enjoyable experience to the visitor. We don't want run of the mill, stock photos, icons and text anywhere on the site. Each page needs to be individually crafted and be of excellent quality.

The entire goal of the web site is to reflect the high quality of our product.

Our favorite product, company web sites are www.apple.com (you should have seen this coming at this point :-) ) and http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/

We've been struggling to find a freelancer or a team that can get this done. I thought of asking you on HN hoping that you can help.

Best, Yalim

22 comments

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mapleoin
There should be a who's hiring thread later today, that would be a better place to post this: http://news.ycombinator.org/user?id=whoishiring
yalimgerger
Thank you. We are not hiring. We are looking for a freelancer or a company to do the work. Would that still be the right place to post?
orangethirty
There is also a freelancer thread. Keep posted, it should go live in the coming minutes.
mryan
I can strongly recommend Dennis Covent - http://denniscovent.com/

He recently designed a site for me, and I was really impressed with the quality of his work, and his responsiveness and attitude throughout the project.

michalkosecki
I'd be happy to help & support you :) please contact me at contact@michalkosecki.com

www.michalkosecki.com

yalimgerger
Thanks Michal. I'll check out your web site and get back to you.
michalkosecki
The website is still under construction but you should definately check out my works on deviantart http://michalkosecki.deviantart.com/gallery/

I found out that we have a common friend - Marcin from PlaceChallenge. I'm Art Director at PlaceChallenge. :)

yalimgerger
Yes I noticed too. :-). Hope all is well with PlaceChallenge. I looked your work. Quite nice. Did you make any other product web sites other than PlaceChallenge web site?
michalkosecki
Well, most of people like these projects: http://michalkosecki.deviantart.com/art/FanPage-Trender-two-... http://michalkosecki.deviantart.com/art/Mobeelizer-website-d... (please download these and check out the details :))

From time to time I'm making small landing pages like this: http://noacowork.pl/karta/

And in case you've missed it - similar pages for PlaceChallenge games: http://runawayapp.com/ http://www.serpentapp.com/

There are also few more projects that I can't show yet, due to the NDA, sorry.

sidmitra
Feel free to ping us at http://www.cloudshuffle.com
yalimgerger
Thanks. Will take a look at your site and get back to you.
yalimgerger
Did you do any startup/product web sites that are not in your portfolio on your web site?
sidmitra
Yeah quite a few. I haven't updated the site in almost 6 months + there are NDA issues with a few. So until they launch can't add some of them to my folio.
yalimgerger
I'd be interested in seeing them.
sidmitra
Sure. You can find my email in my HN profile
joeteplow
check out mikekus.com hes incredibly talented and works with a bunch of YC Co's. Pricey but if you've got the money to spend....
fabiandesimone
Awesome design... last quote was in the XX.XXX range though.
fabiandesimone
Hey Yalim,

What I usually do is go to Dribble and search for designers that I like. I´ll contact them and work out a deal.

Most of the designs I´ve done for my projects were done that way and it has worked out great.

prehnra
My best advice is to find sites you like with similar functionality to what you need and try to find out who did those. Often companies will share who they used. If it is an internal person then he or she might be willing to share inspirations or point to freelancers with similar approaches.

Note that this isn't really about the "look." Good designers are flexible enough to work in many styles and are always trying to solve your unique problem. What you are trying to spot is quality and familiarity with the technologies you need.

4midori
We'd be glad to help. We have a stable of designers with different aesthetics, I'm sure we'll have one to match.

http://versastudio.com