Design

Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields (see design disciplines below). In some cases the direct construction of an object (as in pottery, engineering, management, cowboy coding and graphic design) is also considered to be design.

Designing often necessitates considering the aesthetic, functional, economic and sociopolitical dimensions of both the design object and design process. It may involve considerable research, thought, modeling, interactive adjustment, and re-design. Meanwhile, diverse kinds of objects may be designed, including clothing, graphical user interfaces, skyscrapers, corporate identities, business processes and even methods of designing.

Thus "design" may be a substantive referring to a categorical abstraction of a created thing or things (the design of something), or a verb for the process of creation, as is made clear by grammatical context.

99designs

99designs is an online graphic design marketplace headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Melbourne, Berlin, Paris, London and Rio de Janeiro.

Services

The company creates their products by crowdsourcing, as customers can solicit designers to submit designs for contests to create products such as websites, T-shirts, or logos. The customer then chooses the best design from the pool of submitted entries and the selected designer will win a cash payment. Customers also have the option of working with individual designers by purchasing design templates from 99designs’ Readymade logo store or by visiting Tasks for quick graphic design fixes.

Other products

1-to-1 projects, as the one products of 99designs, provides both clients and designers a way to plan follow-up work in order to tackle design projects easily. By providing this project, designers could be invited to work directly with client who get the desired logo design on a 1-to-1 project.

Tasks is another product of 99designs to provide clients chances to match their need with a skilled graphic designer. The task could be finished in a short time, normally it is completed in less than one hour with US$19 or more. Firstly, clients could describe the job they want to be done, unload some supporting files and prepay US$19, the quickly service from 99designs is underway. Then, a professional graphic designer will complete the job in less than one hour. People can request revision until clients are satisfied with the work. Finally, approving clients' job by downloading final files and then the company will pay the designer.