I think you can solve that by taking into account customer feedback when curating the designers. That would for sure allign interests.

That suggests that our clients know smart and usable design when they see it. I actually think they're half of the problem.

Maybe what your clients want isn't high design, but good design delivered on time, within budget, and incorporating the feedback they were given.

Sounds like a good idea. We used to spend lot of time on dribbble and other websites and its really difficult to figure out which designers are good without wasting weeks... How does the community curates?

I am not the creator, I posted this because we spent way too much time looking for a designer on dribbble, behance, and elance. Users look at the applications and then vote on whether the designer should be admitted

I would recommend www.folyo.me. I posted a job there recently and got 20 high quality leads.

> "Posting a project on Folyo costs $99." Is a bit of a turn-off for small projects where design cost will likely only be $400-500.

That's actually on purpose. We try to encourage larger projects with a higher budget, because we don't want to compete with 99designs and other similar sites at the lower end of the market.

Hey! I'm the creator of Chokoboard, I've never expected to see it on the first page of HN. Thanks for pointing that out I'll change that

Still see the scrollbars a week later. Would be interested to know what kind of bump you saw in traffic being on front page of HN? When my product was on front page of HN for a day or so I saw maybe 2000 hits on the site.