We are an Atlanta based startup looking for an UI/UX expert to help us build for our Beta. We are self-funded and have the budget allocated for this work.<p>After hours of looking on the web, the one thing I've realized is that for this type of work you really need someone who comes with recommendations. So I turn to you guys for help.<p>Thanks!<p>EDIT: We are an angel-funded startup, building a web-based research aggregation tool. We have a budget of up to $5000. We are looking for someone to help come up with a clean design, branding, and layout. We have 4 unique pages, and a bookmarklet that needs the creative touch. We are implementing using the JEE stack (Struts2, JSPs, etc.), and have been using Blueprint CSS for layout.<p>EDIT AGAIN: We have 3 developers on staff, we have been able to come up with a basic site layout, color scheme, and know how to wire it up. What we want is someone to give us a new logo, CSS, header, footer, graphics for certain controls on the page, and maybe if they have a better idea on how to present certain data (but this isn't as important).
Should leave your email or contact info.<p>Also, good UI/UX experts would already be busy with ongoing projects, your solicitation barely registers anything on an excitement scale. Should divulge a bit more info about your project, or industry, or what you want to do.
I'd say Blue Flavor --- <a href="http://www.blueflavor.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.blueflavor.com</a> --- they wrote Blueprint. I liked them a lot; excellent consultants. They may be out of your price range though. For the shops that you've heard of, for projects that include IA and UX in addition to pushing pixels, a small project falls in the 10-20 range.<p>It does not sound like you want UX --- it sounds like you want a designer. If you just want to look nice, that's a $1500-$4000 project. My advice, based on our experience: post to Craigslist and compare portfolios.
The best way to find a designer is find something you personally think is beautiful and well designed (or, if you think you have no taste, substitute your opinion for someone's you trust).<p>Contact those people and try to convince them to work with you. Be prepared to spend a lot (which is going to be worth it if they're good).
Amy Hoy. She's amazing. She made twistori and Color Wars among other things. She's spoken at lots of conferences, so you can see her thoughts about UI right out in the open via her slides. Aside from knowing UX/UI, she seems to be an accomplished hands-on Ruby programmer, Javascript programmer, and graphic designer. <a href="http://www.slash7.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.slash7.com</a>
Are you looking for a designer or a developer? UI folks like myself tend to come in 2 flavors. One is skilled at the wireframes, architecture and look and feel and can do pretty mockups and prototypes. The other is a programmer whom is familiar with the latest AJAX, JSPs etc and implements the design created by the former person.<p>Also if the company is important to you as it should be you might want to hire someone familiar with branding to do your branding. Having a UI person do your branding is like having a programmer do your UI. They might know a bit about it but are definitely not the expert.<p>Lastly, if you're looking for someone with recommendations but don't know anyone personally try linkedin.com. Check out some profiles, look at their recommendations and check out their website. You can see my profile as a starting point.<p>,Jose Benavides
"web-based research aggregation tool"<p>I personally know of at least two other in-the-works tools like this. I'm interested to see what the competitive space looks like for this market in the next 6-18 months.
I have a guy.<p>He did the UX for our CMS, and has just quit his day job to do Freelancing full time (and work for Servee)<p>Check out <a href="http://demo.servee.com" rel="nofollow">http://demo.servee.com</a> for some UX work and
<a href="http://kkellydesign.com" rel="nofollow">http://kkellydesign.com</a> for general Design<p>(also highlandpr.com/portfolio for branding work)