8 years ago from John Jackson, Design Lead at Vincent
I have been a member of Dribbble for a few years. I love to find other Dribbblers and would love to connect with you guys! The idea for this arose from the Twitter post.
My Dribbble is http://dribbble.com/johnjackson -- what is yours?
I'm genuinely curious: What do you guys feel that you get out of Dribbble? I see cool stuff on there, but it's typically out of the context of the problem it is (or isn't) solving. The comments make my skin crawl. Am I missing something?
I feel the same way about Dribbble, no real constructive criticism. Plus, I feel like I am too old for Dribbble.
"Nice Colors!" :). I agree with you. It has lead to a couple freelance gigs though.
I've pretty much turned my Dribbble account into my portfolio.
Some people have strong opinions about this but I'm leaning towards decentralizing a lot of my activity online. Portfolio: Dribbble, Writing: Medium, Conversations: Twitter, etc.
Love your music and work!
Thanks dude!
I like it for visual design reference and inspiration. The ability to like shots and organize them into buckets helps my process. To add to that, I get a large amount of work requests through it. It's very rarely effective at expressing IxD or collecting constructive feedback though.
Ditto
Absolutely
Dribbble is for beautiful things. It's really that simple.
It has become the dominant index people use to find designers. Even if you only have like 100 followers, you'll still get a lot of people finding you in the search results (usually for location) and reaching out about work.
"but dribbble shots aren't a good way to judge a designer!"
That's why there's a big ol' link for your site at the top of your profile. People don't base their whole hiring decision on those little squares.
Plus, it's a blast to just put up crazy animated fun stuff that doesn't fit into a portfolio project, for instance: http://drbl.in/mUyU
That's exactly it. It's like Tinder for designers. A quick snapshot to get a surface-level first impression, but the potential to lead to something much more substantial (if that's what you're into).
Have something more to say? Link it to a case study on your site or a Medium article.
Look at the way a heavily conceptual designer like John Maeda uses the site. He has a bunch of experiments posted without context, but sandwiched in between are deeper projects like this, with a link to a video that better shows the full scale of the idea.
It's a good source of inspiration if you know half of the stuff on there won't actually work too well in practice. I'm not too hot on visual design these days, so yeah, gathering inspiration for things I can apply to something that will realistically work.
I get all of my freelance work from Dribbble. Having a pro account is worth wonders ;)
I don't consider it a resource for real design solutions, I just see it a fun place to post snippets of work and experiments. I work on pretty boring enterprise software sometimes so it's nice to mix it up and see playful and colorful things, but it's just that.
It helped bring in the majority of my freelance work when i left my full-time job which enabled me to spend more time on my own side-projects, then when we got some funding i found max and oleg via Dribbble, both insanely talented.
So it's had a pretty big impact, especially improving my own design work
Dribbble has become the go-to place for showing off my design work. I use it to land design gigs, both full-time and freelance. Although it doesn't necessarily replace a traditional portfolio, it seems to be (in my experience) a viable alternative!
I use Dribbble for inspiration and every few months I'll post a shot or two. I really do feel like its a popularity contest there and unless you have several thousand followers, its really hard to get exposure for your work.
My profile: https://dribbble.com/JasonLi
A ton of job leads.... clients, relationships, and money.
I primarily go there for design inspiration, but I recently started sharing my work there, too. I just enjoy it for what it is: show and tell for designers.
There seems to be a lot of dribbble hate these days, I don't get it. I think its a great community.
It's good if you can leverage it. Don't use it to post case studies and in-depth analysis of your work. If I'm working on a project, and I create a certain element or view that I find appealing, I will post it. However I post it because I like it and enjoy sharing things with people, not because I'm looking for feedback or an ego boost. Use it to give people a quick "toe in the water" look into your style, ability, and perhaps it will net you some clients. All of the best freelance contracts I've obtained have been through dribbble.
Both local and remote clients. It's easier than consistently updating a portfolio, but creates plenty of folio referrals.
I occasionally use it for feedback, and I've seen mixed results. The rare moment I get constructive feedback is great, but those times are far fewer and far between than they were six years ago.
I barely browse general posts. The vast majority of users are unabashed trend-followers, and many others lack practical experience.
Also used it to recruit for my own projects; great for finding specialized, local designers.
It's like Instagram.. It's an ego boost and dopamine rush each time you get a "like". On the flipside I'm sure it makes some designers feel like crap when they don't get the attention they were hoping for.
I go there for inspiration and references. For example, I'm currently designing a platform that dealing with all kinds of data, so I go to dribble and see how other designers deal with it, and what kinds of UI patterns they use.
On the contrary, I feel Dribbble is a good tool for problem solving. However, I feel that the problem solving happens more on the visual design front rather than the UX front. For example, I have used Dribbble to get ideas for different treatments of data tables and graphs for mobile. Also, the work on Dribbble helped me so much with improving my iconography skills.
BTW, I'm still waiting on an invite if anyone here has one to spare :)
Nope.
I have a Dribbble invite. Reply to this comment with a link to your portfolio.
Hej John, I would really appreciate an invite.My portfolio has a bit of physical interaction design work but I want to start putting some gifs on dribble of some interaction design work too. https://www.behance.net/owenmcfadzenhttps://dribbble.com/owenmcfadzen
I'm actually only a prospect. :( https://dribbble.com/andrewmcwatters
I was recent featured on Bootstrap Expo (http://expo.getbootstrap.com/2015/04/16/andrew-mcwatters/), and would like to try to be featured on Awwwards in the future as well, but for now I sit on the sidelines watching players.
I have some invites.
I would love one if you think any of my work is decent enough, most of what's in my portfolio is aged, though. http://www.andrewmcwatters.com/
Oh, if you have a spare invite, please send me one as well. My username is johnkim. Thanks!
I'd love an invite if you have any left! Here's my portfolio: http://littlearrows.com/#work And my account: https://dribbble.com/marciikeler
You have officially been drafted!
I would love your consideration. I am a bit more of an interaction designer (CIID alum), but I would love to get my work out there too. https://www.behance.net/owenmcfadzenhttps://dribbble.com/owenmcfadzen
I'm jumping on this bandwagon — If there are anymore invites going i would love one!
https://dribbble.com/heygavinjohnsonhttp://www.gavinjohnson.me.uk/
Drafted. Nice work! :)
Brilliant — thanks Jesse!
I'd love an invite. I've been doing a bunch of icon/ui work lately but haven't updated my portfolio.
Here's some older work: http://mattmitchellcreative.comhttps://dribbble.com/mattstudio
I drafted you. Best of luck.
Thank you so much! Pending thank you shot, incoming. <3
Here are a few extra for you:
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Opinion: I can understand the idea, and your sentiment, but I don't think we need another one of these.
I've fallen out of love with dribble.
It's done.
Oh boy, buckle up.
I have two problems with dribbble.
I'm super critical of my work so I can't ever bring myself to upload anything.
I feel like most things that are UI related are very pretty to look at but not practical in real scenarios. Often a longer string of text (like a longer location name for example) will throw it all off because they don't consider real data being used.
I do this for my Russian homies in the comments section who are always "diggin the colors!"
Never been invited, and have no interest in performing a job interview for those lucky enough to get a few invites to give out.
I have some invites. Just let me know your username.
it's just "stevencavins". Well that's awfully kind of you!
You have been initiated!
Very cool, thanks so much! I've always wanted to know how the other side of it works.
I'd like an invite, if you can spare one! DawnPaladin is my username.
Hi Evan,
That's just a nice gesture :)
I would love to have one.
portfolio: http://webchirpy.com/portfolio
username: Webchirpy
Hello :)
Hope this conversations lead us to strengthen our collaborations guys. Here's mine https://dribbble.com/arwasil .
Hi! I'm here: https://dribbble.com/deborahkim
Dribbble is great for inspiration and connecting to designers I might never have heard of otherwise. There's so much to explore that it can get overwhelming, but I love the friendliness of the UI.
I think Dribbble is a great place to get inspired and connect with other designers. You can find me here: https://dribbble.com/mattiasjohansson
Can anyone please give me a dribble invitation, none of my friends are there.... I wanna update my shots.... http://dribbble.com/sivadass
Nice to meet you, I think all designers should be on dribbble and most of them are.
I'm just a prospect. If you have an invite: http://dribbble.com/jenswindolfhttp://www.jenswindolf.de
Dribbble invite sent. Love your work.
Thanks, Paul!
My pleasure Jens and welcome to Dribbble.
If anybody has an invite and thinks that I belong there I would like to give it a try. I start doing full time freelance and can share more projects. One of the latest freelance project: http://cl.ly/image/3d3M2M3j222C
Yes :D I recently got an invitation and now I'm posting some works :D https://dribbble.com/mariliaferreira
My dribbble is www.dribbble.comn/grantharris
No and probably never. Too lazy to put anything resembling to a portfolio together. Ever!
I recommend "Booom" the Dribbble Enhancement Suite: http://aerolab.github.io/booom/
A better UI for Dribbble.com to make life easier for designers. Booom makes Dribbble.com faster and easier to use, by adding many highly requested features:
If someone has a spare invite, I would love to have one. https://dribbble.com/johannknott
I use dribbble a lot for freebies and inspiration and would like to give back to the community.
Hello!
I'm fairly new to the the Dribbble scene, but always looking to grow my network.
I have not been invited yet, but I am looking forward to putting up some physical interaction design studies, blueprints and interaction gifs up if anyone would care to consider me. https://www.behance.net/owenmcfadzenhttps://dribbble.com/owenmcfadzen
I'm http://dribbble.com/CalvinWilson
If anyone's interested, we're having a Dribbble Meetup in LA. Come hang out. -- http://nvite.com/DribbbleLA/f27a
Got some invites for any prospects that attend ;)
Been trying to post more work in progress recently.
https://dribbble.com/Poonimator
Dribbble is still very good fun and inspirational for me—I don't post commercial works though. Dribbble meet-ups are great too!
Hi, mine is @oscarmarcelo. :)
Just recently starting posting! You can check me out here :) https://dribbble.com/maciejg
http://dribbble.com/shawnmiller
I just post small pieces of projects that I otherwise wouldn't put on my portfolio site, and random things I make.
Hi, I'm on Dribbble. Would love to connect!
No, I'm on Designer News currently. Is this a trick question?
I kinda expected this to be an actual discussion, where people would say "I use and have Dribbble because I like x y z aspects of it," or to say "I don't use Dribbble because of x y z." Surprised to see people just comment their Dribbble accounts.
EDIT: Oops, looks like I can't read.
Well, the post does say "Are you currently on Dribbble" and "what is your profile link" :-)
I've gotten my last 5 clients through Dribbble. I definitely see the value in it, people looking for talented designers scour it like crazy.
From Monterrey, México: https://dribbble.com/eldelentes
Hi everyone! I'm beginning with the dribbble community. I like it because is a very fast way to showcase you wip; but, at the same time I have to say as others, that there's a lack of useful feedback to improve our works.
So, you can go into my profile and criticize me! https://dribbble.com/imapache
Hola! You can find me at http://dribbble.com/mrtnmatt
I don't use it very often but I'm trying to get myself to do a post at least one a week https://dribbble.com/henryfreel
I'm on there once in a while - http://dribbble.com/justalever
No, I was invited a few years back, but I never signed up.
I go on and look at it when I want to see some one else's solution to a problem, but more often then not, I feel like its like design as art.
Got an invitation a couple of weeks ago and couldn't have a chance to fill much.
I use it to create inspiration buckets: https://dribbble.com/noiseisthishttp://noiseisthis.com
Still a prospect though.
I use Dribbble mostly as a source of inspiration but also hope that with enough practice and perseverance I might get close to the skill levels of the ones I admire the most.
I like Dribbble and still find it useful, ultimately I use it for what it's made for, to show what Im currently working on. I use projects a lot to show the progress of what I'm working on and it's cool to see how projects evolve over time.
I have no problem publishing unpolished work on there.
I must admit however, it did my head in when dribbble went through its 'animated hamburger' icon phase.
Actually, I've never been able to get an invite. Because i'm lazy or don't have enough friends. So if you want to make my day, here I am.
Have a link to your portfolio?
Eh, in the same shoes.
I'd like to be :(
Hello! I haven't been posting a lot, but here's mine https://dribbble.com/leorabelo
I like the comments above on Dribble and its usefulness. Dribble works as a source of inspiration. I'm on there too live from Minneapolis, MN: https://dribbble.com/iammrjuju
Hey hey hey - https://dribbble.com/heitzke
You can find me at dribbble.com/patrickloonstra. See you there.
Oh hey John, was surprised to see your profile when I saw this post. Let's catch up again on Skype sometime.
Oh yeah, my dribbble: https://dribbble.com/isaacpvl
https://dribbble.com/bradhansen
Would love to follow some new people.
I'm also somewhere on Dribbble. My stuff is mostly blue. https://dribbble.com/KaAnDK
Sure am! Who isn't on Dribbble these days? ;)
Me :(
I don't post nearly as much as I should: https://dribbble.com/kevinbrennan
Hi, my Dribbble is https://dribbble.com/halvarssonjens :)
Here is my Dribbble!
https://dribbble.com/garrettcampagna I'll be back later to follow everyone!
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