Dribbble the road of departure

Recently dribbble began to become popular in the design circle, which was respected by many designers. It is a work for artists, designers and other creative works of the crowd, providing work online services for users to view the completed works, or are being created works.

Good design is crucial to their success, whether they are newly established or are developing. On the one hand, good ideas and core functions are the first factors for a product to consider. On the other hand, the need to improve the user experience through design is increasing. Dribbble is one of the most influential and discussed online communities for designers at the moment. Many designers will come here to find inspiration and interact with designers.

The concept behind Dribbble is not novel at all. Founded in 2000, Deviantart is now the biggest social network for artists and art enthusiasts. Founded in 2006, Behance (has been acquired by Adobe) is also a professional designer to upload and promote their work in the community. But Dribbble is quietly appearing, and in the design industry fame Big Noise. Although Dribbble's appearance appears very sudden, but it is composed of many important elements behind, let's try to peep one or two.

Let's shoot.

For people who don't know Dribbble, basketball and picture design seem to be irrelevant. The former usually needs to be done outdoors or in an indoor basketball stadium, while the latter usually requires people to sit at a table and paint or use AI or PS on the computer.

But Dribbble is all about basketball. The new pictures are called "shots" (shots), a group of pictures called "baskets" (buckets), and the most recent uploaded images are called "first Show" (debuts). In Dribbble's vocabulary, there is no forwarding (retweets and reblogs), only rebounds (rebounds). With only a certain number of rebounds, the most popular pictures can enter the "playoffs" (playoffs).

Dribbble's co-founder, Dan Cederholm, said: "Dribbble's name is inspired by the double metaphor of the clash of ideas (bouncing ideas) and the sharing of works (leaking your). The reason for adding a B is because the dribble domain name is occupied (dribble in basketball terms is dribbling). At first we didn't want to be so close to the relationship, but as the service unfolded and found that the basketball terminology was really working, the connection was naturally tight. ”

And for new users and prospective users, Dribbble's name and the pink basketball logo are well remembered. This may be the message they intentionally or unintentionally want to convey: Dribbble is an easy topic to talk about.

Quality First

I remember clearly that when one of my college roommates was a UI designer, he was totally attracted to the concept of "player" Dribbble, the first time I heard Dribbble. That was a few years ago, when Dribbble only offered invitations to register, the invitations were randomly distributed to users and limited in number to control the number of "players".

Soon, Dribbble became a college basketball team on the internet, and everyone was flocking to become a Dribbble player. But Dribbble seems to accept only the best designers, under such exposure and aura, Dribbble quickly accumulated popularity. Although the user base is small, people who are interested are growing exponentially. Although Dribbble is slightly open to the invitation system, a two-level confirmation is still required for registering a new account. However, the previous reputation has laid a solid foundation for Dribbble, Dribbble high-quality platform has become the most talented and the most interesting designers of the ownership.

Dribbble co-founder Cederhom said that the main reason for Dribbble's use of invitations was that they had jobs in order to stay in balance with Dribbble, and that they could devote themselves to Dribbble only if they were sure that Dribbble income was guaranteed. And the invitation system just satisfies the conditions at that time.

Unique visual Experience

If you are familiar with Pinterest, you will be attracted by its near-paper magazine image quality, which is popular within the current fashion and design industry. The UI graphic design is similar. The design company's desk has been occupied by a thick and delicate magazine like Creative Review. These magazines are both a source of inspiration for designers and a very high demand for their designs.

Like Pinterest, Dribbble is a good substitute for the magazine's media by virtue of its high quality design project, simple and aesthetically pleasing interface. Dribbble the color of the site to the main gray, with the logo echoes pink as embellishment. Occupy the main part of the site is a variety of works, but also left ample space for comments and display praise, sharing and viewing times. Even a small part of the space is about the use of various colors in different works, so that other designers can imitate their shadow and hue in their works.

Click on the link to open the work, will come to an attachment interface. This interface almost discards all the elements of the Dribbble traditional interface, leaving only a toolbar on the left, which is the most basic information about the work. Flickr has a similar design, but Dribbble's handling is almost as extreme.

Cederhom said: "The most important to Dribbble is always the designers and their work." We intend to maintain the interface into a unified monochrome, Helvetica font, is to highlight the designer's work. Our added features are a direct response to the user's needs. For example, rebounds was originally a user who wanted to post their images directly in the comments, so we made a new interface for that. ”

Dribbble always ensure that the user's work is the most good-looking, which also makes the user participation is higher, so that Dribbble better.

A chance to make money

The current economic situation is grim, many Western markets are still in recession, economic pressure on small and medium-sized enterprises and even large companies have a small impact. The design company wants to operate with minimal manpower, and customers want to minimize the number of new design projects. This allows the UI designer community, especially those in freelance jobs, to look for new job opportunities. After all, the more customers there are, the more opportunities they have to work.

So smart Dribbble also thought of, set up their own work section, through a simple database, collected some links to other places, so that users find new job opportunities. Cederhom said: "At the beginning of Dribbble do not have their own work section, but can be put on the job ads." It turned out that we needed a dedicated space to provide a two-way choice for other companies and users who used Dribbble every day. ”

"There are a lot of recruiting opportunities on Dribbble every day, and designers and design companies can get what they want," he said. If we can provide more tools, it will be better for either side. Cederhom added.

Design has never been so important

Good design standards are always rising over time, which is why Apple's IOS 7 came out of the Dribbble discussion. As the design style changes to IOS 7, Dribbble has the potential to be the center of this change. Many users are already doing the design of the new interface for IOS 7, and there is a lot of improvement, which will also improve the quality of the Dribbble platform.

"Now is the golden age of designers. The business world has never invested so much in design. People are becoming more and more concerned about and aware of the importance of design. The company invests more in design, because a good user experience will be the key to the success of the product. More and more companies are created by designers who will design the soul of the product rather than simply processing it later to make it more beautiful. Good design is an idea, an idea. ”

Dribbble Next

Although Dribbble has become a breakthrough design work to discover and share the online platform, enviable. But like all good companies, Dribbble not satisfied with the status quo, they are studying new features called "Team" (teams). It enables organizations to audit the designer's information and post their own information on the work they can provide on a public interface.

Cederhom revealed that teams can also be in their own information on the recruitment ads. The reason for this feature is to observe the company's habit of using Dribbble with individual designers, who share their work information. In addition, Cederhom believes that teams and internal members can promote each other and enhance their visibility.

The upcoming teams for Dribbble looks like a good and logical profit opportunity to enhance its relationship with big companies. And Dribbble also proved their own strength, in maintaining the original status at the same time, the future may have better development.