Finding the best design for your brand, whether you’re a start-up, solo-entrepreneur, or established business, can be difficult.
There are often a lot of considerations around budget, time, and quality. It can be a long and frustrating process if you have to factor in briefings with freelancers, meetings with agencies, or feedback session with colleagues.
Here at DesignCrowd we have a global community of 550,000+ designers who have worked with business owners all over the world to create unique logos, websites, and graphic designs.
Registering as a customer on DesignCrowd means you are able to begin your journey towards finding a perfect design that will help sell you message and build your brand.
Are you a business owner in need of a logo, brochure, or website design?
Crowdsourcing is valuable because it harnesses the power of a group of creatives who can provide you with design possibilities quickly and within a set budget. You get to eliminate the waiting and overhead costs that come with hiring an in-house designer or outsourcing to a design firm.
Are ready to get started with DesignCrowd?
If this is your first time hearing about crowdsourcing and you want to see the results of potentially thousands of creative minds, the first step is to register an account as a customer. This is where the real fun begins.
Launch a design contest
Once you are registered, you can launch a design contest. Here you get the opportunity to outline everything you are looking for in a design. Tell potential designers what kind of project you need done, whether a logo, business card, website etc., and any guidelines you have in your brief.
READ: How to Write a Design Brief in 10 Steps
Set an affordable budget
One of the biggest benefits of launching a design contest is choosing the budget. You are not at the mercy of what a designer wants to charge you. Instead, you get to choose between clearly defined options that tell you exactly what you can pay and what you get. No surprises or hidden charges further down the line.
READ: How To Determine A Design Budget For Your Business
Watch the designs flood in
Next is the exciting part! The designs start to come in. No matter how many contests you run, it is always exciting to see the designs start popping up. You can start sorting through them and making personal notes on what you like and what you don’t. You can also provide star ratings and feedback to the designers which will help ensure the ideas are bang on the brief.
Share with friends
As you are looking through your gallery of customized designs, you may not know which one to pick. Not to worry, this is when you can bring in your friends, coworkers, clients, or family members. The sharing option on the brief admin pages means you can share the designs with others to get input on which you should choose.
Selecting and refining a design
Many times you might find a design you like best but you still want a few tweaks done to it. If this is the case, DesignCrowd is perfect because you are able to choose a design and work with the designer to refine it to your liking before it is handed over.
READ: How To Check If Your Designs Match The Brief You Submitted For Your Business
Share your design with the world!
Once the design is perfect, your contest is finished and you are ready to publish your design. Share the result of your design journey with the world whether on your website, business cards, or elsewhere.
READ: Ideas On Where To Use Your Brand New Logo Design
What else can you do as a customer?
Closing one design contest on DesignCrowd doesn’t mean it has to be the end of your creative journey, as there are plenty of other ways you can open up new artistic avenues on the platform.
You can browse the various categories in order to find a designer whose specialty matches your further business needs, from logos and business cards to t-shirt prints, brochures, flyers, and posters.
You can also search DesignCrowd’s database of 550,000+ designers and filter out the results by earnings, positive feedback, and projects won to separate the wheat from the chaff and find someone to work with 1-on-1 through the platform.
For an extra dose of inspiration, you can browse through our Inspiration Galleries or search thousands of contests to get ideas on brief, budget, and engagement.
DesignCrowd offers a platform for both designers and businesses. You can not only get projects done, but you can interact with the community of users and gain inspiration for future projects. Join now and enjoy the many benefits that come with being part of a design community which reaches around the world!
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Written by Jessica Walrack on Monday, February 20, 2017
Jessica Walrack is a professional freelance writer with a background in sales and marketing. After 7 years in the corporate world, she stepped into the online sphere and has now been freelancing for 4 years. She specializes in helping businesses to create a stellar online experience for their audience in order to build industry authority and increase profitability. In her spare time, Jessica enjoys traveling all over the world with her family.