We’re hiring a Lead Visual Designer

I made this page. To the design critics: I wish I could have spent more time ironing out the kinks. But I couldn't afford another day. That's why I'm hiring a full time visual designer! The next single-use, throw-away ad will be a model of true perfection. We'll likely run a private beta for it. We'll A/B test the copy, conduct extensive cross-browser, cross-device testing too.<p>:-P I do genuinely appreciate your feedback. But you've got to choose your battles with everything you do, always. Including with design. I'm betting / hoping that the flaws on this page won't stop it doing its job.

<i>We respect you more than to try to lure you with promises of iPads, snacks, foosball tables or any of that junk...</i><p>Thank you, I'm glad companies are respecting the fact that good developers can see through these 'perks', and hope this will go the way of the 'rockstar' or 'ninja' developer descriptors. We can all afford plenty of $1.50 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to maximum gluttony levels on our own salary, and this is no way to prevent weight gain at a startup. About the foosball tables, at the last startup I was, we were so busy that if I or anyone else were caught near it or the complimentary Wii/XBox/Pool Table/Jacuzzi, it would be guaranteed to appear somewhere on the next performance review.

Great pitch, but some feedback:<p>On my Macbook Air, I didn't even realize there was something below the fold. I was scrolling side to side and clicking on the icon, trying to figure out what to do (partly the fault of Lion's disappearing scrollbars). The min-width of 1280px seems unnecessarily wide. Scanning right to left and back again to read what your company does is not the most pleasant experience.

Everyone seems fixated on the design of this particular page (a one-time use site to find a great designer). The important thing to take away from this and what makes it great in my opinion is how honest he is and how he address the concerns a designer will have. All the nonsense you see in a typical job post is simply mentioned briefly in the last of 6 bullet points under "boring details".<p>I bet he gets a great designer because he's demonstrated he can provide a great work environment for said designer.

And yet not a single clickable link anywhere on the page to the company's main site to learn more about them or their product.

This is really very nice, but a shame about the swear word, which, I think, makes the whole thing feel a little tacky. I know this has been discussed to death but I can't help but cringe a little when I see something like that.

This is good design? I sat at the first screen for a while clicking on things to no avail. It was not immediately apparent that I needed to scroll down...

This is a great way to advertise a position. Clean design marketing to designers, communicating exactly what you would be working on. Totally unsurprising that my friends at Intercom are responsible; they're pretty great.<p>The only thing missing is a link to <a href="http://intercom.io" rel="nofollow">http://intercom.io</a> itself.

Just a few comments:<p>1. Wish the huge icon was clickable that lead somewhere.<p>2. The name tag has no hover feedback. It's actually a link to twitter but it has no hover effect and it's not a usual 'link' graphic (underline/blue color/button).<p>3. Really jarring 'timeline' (the exploded/expanded icon view) section. Very spread out and small, forcing me to bounce my eyes left and right, and scrolling down to read one side, then scrolling back up and down to read the other.<p>4. The 4 circles (I'm CEO etc) needs the flow reversed. People usually read left to right, so the first circle should be top left instead of top right.<p>5. Is there a reason why the icons get smaller and smaller as we scroll down? Kind of a jarring and inconsistence viewing experience, especially the tiny text. (The expanded/exploded view of the icon).<p>Those are just my 2 cents, good luck with the search!

Am I being nitpicky in pointing out that this probably shoulda been done <i>not</i> using giant background images? I guess if it's not a web design company it's not a big deal...but it would raise a flag for me as a designer

Totally off topic, but his name and my name are both pronounced the same, but different historical roots. Interesting stuff.<p>He's probably one of the rare people to appreciate the "but why not Owen?" question I get all the time :-)<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoin" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoin</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C3%B3gan_(given_name)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C3%B3gan_(given_name)</a>

This will be a fantastic opportunity to whoever gets it. To the armchair critics of the design. Maybe, this is why they will need a designer.

Great team and great product! Just worked with them, whoever they hire will definitely be in good hands :)

Very cool bunch of dudes if any designers are wondering.

<i>"I am the CEO and Lead Visual Designer at Intercom."<p>"I'm looking for an incredible new Lead Visual Designer."<p>"So I can be the CEO and Lead Visual Designer at Intercom"</i><p>Huh?

Would be better to make a horrible site and say that if you are a better designer, hop aboard.

Great team to work with :-)

Really nice, smart team to work with too