2016…where did you go?
DesignCrowd is now a community of over 550,000 freelance designers, offering over 40 graphic design services from logos and brand collateral to app and web design. It was a few years ago we hit 100,000 designers. If you need a visual design of any kind, DesignCrowd has got you covered!
We celebrated our first designer millionaire. Congratulations PB! Collectively, designers earned over $38M in project earnings in the site since we launched 8 years ago. Boom!
We introduced new features like quality ratings on the jobs board to help designers find jobs that need help. And, we’ve added more flexible ways to crowdsource design by launching new job formats. Customers and designers can now work exclusively and in a ‘mini crowd’ of 3 designers.
We’ve empowered our designers to be more entrepreneurial with the launch of My Design Services where designers advertise bespoke design services and control pricing and offering.
We have been listed in Techcrunch, Forbes, Venture Beat and Mashable for the ability to match companies and clients with top design talent from across the world.
The list below showcases beautiful design for a diverse range of industries in genres as varied as logo, web, app, and packaging design all the way to t-shirts and striking illustration design.
Millions of designs have been uploaded to DesignCrowd in the last year and we’ve had so many amazing design contests it’s hard to keep track of them all. So we thought, as we enter 2017, there’s no time like the present to honour our top design talent.
Top logo designers on DesignCrowd
You don’t get to the top of DesignCrowd without putting in the hard yakka*. This group of designers smashed out logo designs our customer’s love and approach freelancing as consummate professionals.
If you’re wondering how they get to the top of the game, then check out these tips for creating amazing logo designs!
(*Australian colloquialism for hard work)
Top web designers
One of the fastest growing categories on DesignCrowd is Web design. From e-commerce portals and catalogues, zines to blog page design, social media banner to app design and more, we’ve proven yet again that DesignCrowd is a great place for source web design in 2016. Unsurprisingly India and USA with massive technology and engineering industries dominate the rankings in 2016 as top sources of web designers on DesignCrowd.
Top 10:
- pb – #1 in the global rankings with earnings over $1.2M
- Smart – #2 ranked for web design and also #2 in the overall rankings with earnings in excess of $350K
- rightway from India is ranked #105 overall
- Om is a Malaysian web design agency that is ranked #4 overall on DesignCrowd with earnings in excess of $121K
- Raymond from the USA is ranked #57, has earned $54K on DesignCrowd
- RupalTechno is from India with earnings above $26K, the web design and development agency specialises in uncluttered goal oriented web design.
- webxvision from India has earned over $65K and is ranked #7 in the DC rankings
- Mayank Patel is ranked #5 in web design with earnings over $77K.
- Bold from India has earned over $65K and is ranked #7 in the DC rankings
- webxvision from India has earned over $65K and is ranked #7 in the DC rankings
- DesignandDevelopment from Pakistan
- Surprise #7: jekx2from the Philippines with $47K in earnings rounds out the list.
This is by no means an exhaustive list (hat tip to Robert Marks from the USA, whilst others like Black Stallion Technologies feature elsewhere in the Year Book.
Want to learn more about how to design a great user experience online? Try this post on creating an customer experience tips.
Top 5-star rated designers
Earlier this year, DesignCrowd implemented a star rating system to allow high quality designer’s work to shine. This is where customers rate designs they receive from 1 to 5, with 5 stars being the best in contest. The top 10 designers featured below specialise in various niches and have consistently achieved the highest average 5 star ratings for their submission from customers throughout the year. Please meet the design quality masters of the DC marketplace.
Top designers finding follow up work
These designers demonstrate stellar salesmanship. They are the businesspeople of the marketplace able sell ice to eskimos! The group featured below consistently drove more work than any other in the marketplace all year. How? By selling their own design services via their portfolio and pitching for follow up work after they’d completed the first job. Clever, right?
Learn how to make it rain by increasing the volume of customer work you get from DesignCrowd by setting up design services in your profile.
Best feedback given to designers
Call it the Uber effect but to succeed in marketplaces like DesignCrowd you need to achieve consistent positive feedback scores from your clients for the service and the work you deliver. How?
- Meet the brief requirements
- Deliver high quality designs
- Be responsive to feedback
- Provide a design rationale
- Ask succinct question to clarify the customer’s requests
- Keep communication on the site
Bravo!
Straight from our customer’s mouths:
“I enjoyed the process of getting a logo immensely. We received over 100 designs to choose from with many high-quality submissions. It was the first time that we had so much choice. The process was fast reliable and valuable. We will definitely use again.”
“I’m a returning customer to DesignCrowd because it is so user-friendly, easy to work with the designers, and I’ve always ended up with exactly the design I was hoping for. DesignCrowd gets two thumbs WAY up from me!”
Want to meet more of our designers?
DesignCrowd’s First Millionaire Designer: What drives PB to success?
Love web design? Meet the Top 10 web designers
Hola! Meet the top Spanish designers
Tips from the pros: Learn from other crowdsourced designers
On creativity: How to come up with creative ideas in 5 steps
Written by Jo Sabin on Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Jo Sabin is Head of Designer Community at DesignCrowd. She’s led the company’s public relations and social media programs since 2012. With more than ten years’ experience working with Australian and international tech startups in the creative industries, Jo has been instrumental in meeting DesignCrowd’s objectives in Australia and abroad. Get in touch via Twitter.