I'm looking to make my first hire to have someone design a dashboard for my SaaS app. I'm familiar with Dribbble, Topcoder. 99designs and Upwork but I haven't used any of them to make any hires.<p>Looking through the freelancer profiles on these sites already makes me feel slightly overwhelmed. I'd like someone really good who can design beautiful interfaces for our users.<p>Does anyone have any experience with these platforms or any advice on what worked for them and how they were able to get a good designer?<p>Thanks
Hello Jonathan,<p>I understand your slight anxiety around hiring the designer that will produce the dashboard that would work for your user base.<p>I don't have any experience with hiring through these platforms neither. Well, because I'm on the other side :-)<p>Nonetheless, regarding designing dashboards, specific design rules should be applied. Therefore if you are willing to invest resources into a designer, pick the one who is familiar with the nuances of the SaaS business. And the one that understands data visualization principles. You would save a lot of time and iterations.<p>Btw I've asked the similar question in the fb group dedicated to SaaS growth hacking: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/SaaSgrowthhacking/permalink/1872297209492123/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/groups/SaaSgrowthhacking/permalink/...</a> Comments that got deeper into problem might guide you to make a decision. Multiple perspectives on the problem were listed below the poll.<p>Btw I'm curating the collection of UX/UI Best Practices for SaaS applications. List explains tips and tricks to follow in order to ship profitable software. You can find the collection here: <a href="http://minimumviabledesigns.com" rel="nofollow">http://minimumviabledesigns.com</a><p>If you would be interested in cooperation, we can have a chat.