[randomdrake]

As someone who has been looking for exactly this, I'm super disappointed.

1) There is very, very little explanation as to what's actually going on here. I don't know what the point of me signing up is. What do I get access to when I sign up? What sort of process am I going to have to go through? Are there marketers on the other end of this? What's the catch?

2) Animations, animations, animations.

a) Your splash video is super distracting. Way too much movement and flash.

b) Your fade-ins on your scrolling animations on your homepage are so slow, I scroll right by them or have to stop and wait.

c) Your front-end framework is, unfortunately, painfully obvious. Seeing gears for a few seconds on every... single... page... load...

d) Trying to load your designers portfolio pages was no fun. 105 requests for 19.2MB of content.

This site doesn't give me tremendous hope for the designers you acquire, or hope for your service, at the moment. Sorry.

The idea sounds great. But, for me, you need more info and a way better website regarding design if you're going to tout that you've curated the designers.

[RickS]

This is what happens when communities fail to make a distinction between visual design and interaction design. There's relatively strong visual design here, but as you've discovered, that's not worth much in the absence of actual communication.

[charles_dickens]

randomdrake thanks for your feedback! There are definitely some performance/design issues that we need to fix. Regarding the sign up process: If you sign up as a designer, your application is going to be reviewed by the community and if you are accepted you'll be able to get feedback requests, job offers or contract works on pixelfold. If you sign up as a person that hires designers you'll be able to request those jobs from the designers in the community.