Contest interface improvements
After a few of the most recent large contests, we have implemented a few of the features you have been asking for: Comments are paged, filterable and listed with the most recent first Clearer pager controls for entries in a contest Eliminate/Uneliminate button on the contest page front page Additionally, we have improved the speed …
$2,250 in prizes for the “Remix Mashable” contest
Hey designers…Mashable wants you to mix and Mash their logo and tagline into anything you please! That’s right…we’ve teamed up with Mashable on a massive design competition to celebrate social media and their rebranding as “The Social Media Guide”, so let your creativity run wild. It’s a great opportunity for you to design for a …
Guaranteed contests launch!
As you know, prepaid contests have been the number one requested item in our feedback forum. We’ve long seen offering prepaid contests as an important step for 99designs, but we wanted to make sure that when we did…we did it right. As a result, for the past few months we have been trialing “Guaranteed Contests”, …
Merry Christmas!
Wishing all of you a very merry christmas from the 99designs team, it’s been an amazing year and we couldn’t do it without you all! Over the christmas break (until January 13th) we won’t be offering Western Union payments, only PayPal, Xoom and MoneyBookers. Related articles: Happy Holidays 2012 from 99designs Let’s celebrate! 99designs hits …
Brief outage
Sorry guys, you might have noticed we had a brief outage today. We are still working out the exact cause, but it looked suspiciously like a denial of service atttack. We put a few measures in place that we had been planning for a while and things are back to normal.
Towards prepaid contests…
We are in the middle of launching the first step of the new system that will handle prepaid contests, prize payouts and all of the other neat ideas we have for improving what we offer as a marketplace. This first step is largely under the hood, but you will notice a new transaction page and …
Guaranteed contest payouts
We are hard at work on automating the guaranteed contests and prepaid contests system that we recently blogged about. In the meantime we will be paying out designers on Tuesday mornings (Melbourne, Australia time), on a weekly basis. Bear with us while we make this process seamless! If you are concerned about getting design files …
Vote on comments
Discussion in contests can at times get heated and often the really useful comments can get lost amongst the noise. We have talked about lots of different ways to add moderation around the site, and we keep coming back to the same idea, everyone should be moderators. As a first experimental step, we have added …
Design handover and copyright transfer
I am pleased to announce a major new feature and our first step towards automating payment handling: design handover. Previously, designers and contest holders negotiated the exchange of final design files and payments themselves when a contest ended. Now, after a contest holder has declared a winner, the contest holder and designer will see a gold button in the …
Welcome aboard, Adam!
Just a quick post to welcome aboard our new recruit, Adam Schilling! Adam will be our User Interface Ninja (that’s the technical description). The next few weeks should see some exciting new features that we have been planning.
