Wouldn't it be cool if one could click through a designer's portfolio on SL the way you do on a portfolio web site – with back and forward buttons, instead of having to click back to the profile page between logos?
I know that there are probably more important upgrades in the works, but I figured that I'd suggest it.
(Sorry if this has been mentioned before. My other wish is for search functionality in the forums. ;-) )
59 Comments
Thanks! It's not going to be implemented in the next update, but it's on my to-do for sure. Thanks!
Excellent!
Ivan is there an update on the ongoing updates?? Having the option to do your own previews on logos especially, we have been waiting for these for months! If not is it possible to put links in again to mock ups of the logos I'm selling.
I agree with rockadero. Lot of changes have been scheduled 4-5 months ago but still nothing. :(
Significant feature developments take time. If Ivan were to launch something ill-conceived. half-baked, and largely untested, that would serve no one here. Poorly designed web application interfaces that don't perform as expected are one of the primary reasons people don't come back to sites.
Exactly. Good web development takes a LOT of testing.
Not that long!! I am a web developer also! (I am also a mechanical engineer)
Maybe in some cases but for changing the way clients can view previews and mock ups doesn't. That has been promised for nearly a year!
I agree, the current white, square frame within which our logos are displayed is not showing them off at their best and is possibly even detrimental to sales. A better presentation of our work, and the option to present alternatives as well as our own mockups, is the one feature above all else I wish we had. But I'd prefer that when we get it it is done really well. And I can wait for that.
Yes, that's coming. We're 95% done. We could do it faster, but it would be more expensive for us. As we grow bigger we will be able to do changes faster too.
Also, it would be really nice to be able to delete a comment that was made in error, rather than just edit it.
OK. Np.
Not sure if any of these are already on the mysterious list... :)
- hover on image preview to see price
- in briefs, hover over image preview to see designer & price
- auto-subscribe to your own portfolio for comments
- don't automatically open the logo detail when clicking on the blue heart in overview (since I am already hoping for a price hover, this would make selecting favorites a lot quicker, which you can then browse through later....)
- add a "report this image" option to each logo (not everyone would even think of looking in the forums when he notices a copyright ingfringement)
I am sure I will remember more things.... need coffee first.
+1
In my opinion what needs urgent change is the search feature...there are 22 600+ logos on this site and on each "search" page you only get 20 logos. Not to mention that you have to scroll from "heaven" to "hell" to see all of these 20 logos! The visibility of every logo will greatly increase once the search engine will be changed.
Thanks guys all this is on the list and most of them will be available soon.
I would like to be able to customize my profile further. Perhaps options to include text about yourself, featured logos, and what would really be cool is lets say we want to have our own "personal sale" with reduced prices.. why not let us have that in our profile page and list them - could be a nice way to get more stickiness to our profile pages.
Also an option to list positve feedback from buyers or people who admire your work. With everything going more "social" these days I think this might be a nice fit. It would encourage designers to drive traffic from other sources directly to their profile page and would be win win for both sides imho.
That's good, we will do it.
You know what I want - some widget to easily display all uploaded logos off-site. Facebook, own website... would make my life so much easier. :)
Cool idea!
How about a "Sold Logos by This Designer" page? Sometimes I admire the work of a particular individual and wonder how many logos they've sold.
No.. clients will look more on this page and trust designers with the most sales.. Not fair for others.
I'm all for this.......
You mean that you agree? Well it's not fair mor most of designers. It's like promoting designers portfolios with the most sales. Clients will look straight forward to these portfolios thinking that if they find something that suit their company will be the best choice - which is not true!
Can you suggest a comparable site that does *not* do something like this?
Stocksites do, contest sites do, logo stock sites do, other merchant sites such as ebay and etsy all do.
OK let's turn this site into a closed ghetto with you and others taking the big share from the sales. Just not fair!!
also just because other stocksites do doesn't mean that this is right!
It's not only about fairness, it's about sales too. We have to keep a healthy balance between the two.
Ok then It's not good business! After this I wouldn't recommend stocklogos to a new designer were he will be in the shadow of the big "sales".
This is just the way that I see things so don't get offended!
Yes, of course I understand that. But on the other hand top selling designers will appreciate the system more, right?
yes... 10 top selling designers will appreciate the system more.. they will have much more sales!! But can they support a long time period with a system based on them only?
You may be surprised, but we ran StockExpert.com in the past which was a top stock image with millions of dollars of sales before Getty bought it and shut it down. So we have first hand sales data. You also can read up on it and you will learn that in all stock businesses 90% of the sales are coming from 10% of the contributors.
The same is true on StockLogos. The top 1% of designers make about 15-20% of the business. The top 10% of designers make 90% of the business.
And that's not only because these top designers are somehow better, it's also because the top designers have significantly more work on theses sites, so statistically they are more likely to sell their product.
For example in your case your best course of action to increase your chances of a sale is not any of the appreciated policy changes you suggested, but to simply design more logos. Any policy change may perhaps increase the chances maybe by 0.5-1%, but if you design just one more logo your chance will suddenly increase by 4%. If you design 20 more logos you chances will increase by 200% instantly. You are an engineer, you understand these things well.
hmmm interesting.. :/
I think you got me on this ..ok then! but I will come back :P :P :P
It would be interesting to see the ratio of those top designers, I mean out of those top grossing designers you recently put up, who has the least amount of logos available compared to the amount the designer has sold. My name was mentioned in those top grossing designers and I have considerably less logos for sale.
I was agreeing earlier yes Valef but only because this would benefit me. I can honestly say though that it wouldn't be fair on those with less sales. Just like the staff favs, even though I had logos in there I still feel other designers were highlighted more without reason.
At least with showing top sellers, the proof is in the pudding.
Hah, yes, we could create a top chart like most efficient sellers including the number of logos and the time those logos are on the the site before they sell. So the guy with one logo who sold the logo within 1 second would be on top and the guy with 1000 logos and none sold on the bottom.
If the problem is new designers are getting overlooked the solution is not to take features that encourage sales in your top moneymakers. It should be to add features that help newer designers. Stock sites often promote new designers with with featured spots or blogs or and of course there's always the most newest uploads features.
As it stand now new designs get the most promotion on SL -- and not just in the most recent list but in every search, tag or category search. Only 5 in the last 20 sales were posted more than 6 months ago. 10 of the 20 sales were posted in the last 2 months.
New designs get promoted just fine, I think.
I like the idea of a Featured New Designer page. That would create buzz.
Cross The Lime is my fav new designer!
Mine, too! And she has shared a lot of information with others.
Now I am blushing. :)
females always get quick popularity, i see :P I will soon be crossing the lime with a new (female) account :D
Hey! It's not just being female... you gotta be cute, too. :)
well, naturally! :P But I cannot be cute, I am handsome :D
That's very true! I have a girl account as well.
This site is more logo-oriented than designer-oriented, so this might not be needed as a page. But this could be very useful as a search option. Clients and designers could search by keyword and add an option of "include sold logos", "exclude sold logos", "show only sold logos" or something similar, among other options.
Most probably, designers and clients could find this very useful; particularly for briefs or week-themes (to see what has already been done in a particular theme).
Peace,
Spintherism.
Where has Molumen gone?
Hey Rockadero, why are you asking me? :o)
Please don't start implying crazy things again, okay? :o)
Peace,
Spintherism.
I only mention it because I have an etsy shop and sometimes check other shops to see what has sold there, as opposed to what has not. It gives me insight into the market.
I do that all the time on eBay, when I want to check the market before buying/selling I use "Show Only Completed Listings" on my searches; it works great.
I would love to have the option to curate light boxes/ collections. My favorite animal logos, my favorite letter treatments, my favorite tree logos...
Those could then be rated, and displayed on an extra page by best-rated, with a random (or set) logo from the collection as a title picture. Plus, you could search the collection page for keywords. And have 3 collections or so featured on the front page.
I am sure many clients would appreciate this, since they get all tree logos on one page... and I don't mean *all* logos the way search works now, but only ones someones considered great...
On Etsy, you are allowed to include one of your own pieces in those showcases, and rotating showcases are actually the frontpage.
Good idea for sure!
I would suggest to give some more logo preview options, those that are underneath a published logo (t-shirt, cup, etc.) For example a very common but very useful preview is with a business card and/or other stationary. Or a preview on a desktop monitor (I guess that works often for the clients). That could be added.
And I would really like to see an option to place the logo onto a dark/colored background as well. I know there are some designers here who do it already, but at this point that messes up the look on all the items I mentioned before. And that's actually against the rules as well.
It would be nice if the "most recent" showed up in the order they were accepted.
They showed up in the order that they are reviewed/published. The reason that this order is not the same as the order they were submitted is editing. When a designer edits his/her logo before it is published, it goes back to the end of the queue.
Looking at the way new logos appear on the "most recent" section, it seems that a lot of designers edit their logos before they get published.
Ivan, is there a technical reason for the end-of-queue-if-edited behavior?
Spintherism.
Yeah I usually wait to edit even if there are mistakes or need better descripts.
There is a problem with this.
The last logo I had published went straight to page two and I didn't do any edits after I submitted. The reason mine went straight to page two is because a lot of logo's were published all at once.
More staff please.
This may have been discussed before, but it was suggested on another thread that a private message option would be nice to have. Sometimes there are comments/question we might have about a logo but don't want to put them on the logo's page.
Yes, it is a good idea in theory. When I said "I wish there was a private message option on StockLogos.com" it was more rhetorical than anything... I've seen the PM feature being abused on non-logo-related-communities. Plus, StockLogos is more logo oriented than designer oriented and we wouldn't want clients communicating privately with some designers before a sale, right? Particularly with briefs. Imagine that!
So, in my not so humble opinion, I don't think it is a good idea, even if it was my comment that sparked your comment above. :o)
Peace,
Spintherism.
As an UXD my opinions are ...
# Brief logos should have some extra options than General logos. Adaptations and versions of a suggested logo in its individual page when it clicked. And for that a different upload option where designer don't have to upload EPS or high resolution.
# One comment / inbox tab in Member Area highlighting numbers of new / unread comments
# Search result with Logo-Only option with ample space between them, on mouse over will show price & designer name underneath or over like Google-Image-Search. On clicking one a lightbox like Flickr will appear for 1 to 1 view with Next -Back option
# Ample white space is necessary in between logos on display or they make a color clutter irritation for a viewer and it will hamper his/her choice direction or even loose interest. A good but simple & minimal logo will be easily lost between big and colorful logos around it
# If possible downgrade or grey-scale or less-bright Blue tabs, button, bottom liner, text icon, etc for the site. It some how overwhelm the page and hamper logo view, especially for blue shaded logos and blue complementing / contrasting logos.
# Please make it compulsory for a Brief owner to close the brief and announce the winner if he/she has choose one. And you please give a highlighting option for it.
# # #
Many more to wish,... but let us fulfill the necessity first ( ;