See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Andrew’s connections and jobs at similar companies. Solution — Add a downvote button and sort the front page based on volume of postive upvotes with a slight decay over time function. You may have tripled dribbble's team size, but how exactly has that translated into benefits for the designer community? Lokasyon Victoria, Canada Tweets 15,0K Followers 71,0K Following 2,6K Account created 28 … Guys: I am so sorry you feel that DN has devolved. View Andrew Wilkinson’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. These addresses are known to be associated with Andrew Wilkinson however they may be inactive or mailing addresses only. Andrew Wilkinson craves power and control. PS: Check out Dan and Rich’s official post over on the Dribbble blog. I did think DN was a good platform at first but over time it became very hard to see good content here ,I personally found a good facebook group that does what DN did a while back. For years, I’ve been bugging Dan and Rich, begging them to let me invest in Dribbble. My business partner Chris and I hopped on the phone with Dan and Rich, and they told us that while they loved running Dribbble, they had been at it for eight years and were ready to team up with someone who could help them take things to the next level. Andrew Wilkinson QC MLA is a Canadian politician. Search our database of over 100 million company and executive profiles. That's part of a mod's responsibility. this thread). Bio Co-founder of Tiny, owner of @Dribbble, @MetaLab, and many others.Buying, starting, and investing in wonderful internet businesses since 2007. Bio Co-founder of Tiny, owner of @Dribbble, @MetaLab, and many others. A "Published by Andrew Wilkinson" tagline was put in the footer immediately after DN was bought. Andrew Wilkinson has only one known connection. Thanks for taking the time to address the concerns within the community. Podcast host Meg Lewis dives into this week’s design news and shares tips to create your best work. Dan sent me an email saying that he and Rich were thinking about taking on a partner. Previous Director for Dribbble Holdings (US) Ltd. Half the time, you barely even notice those tabs. I still love Dribbble and most of the designers I know still love it and use it as intended... for sharing and viewing fragments of lovely visual work as inspiration. This breaks the habit of coming back over time and erodes the "quality users" that the community originally built around. [Image title](http://imgur.com/0fwbUI3.gif). I like your idea about a community for deeper conversations, but maybe it's not Dribbble. I’ve used Dribbble to hire some of our best designers, it’s been a great source of inspiration when I get stuck, and the community always brings me back down to earth whenever I start thinking I’m a good designer. I for one have chosen to no longer take part - it's not like I got anything out of dribbble anyway. We just finalized everything last week and could not be more pumped about it. In an effort to cut down on bots/spam while keeping the community open, the posting rights should be more strict. Solution — To be honest, I'm really not sure how to solve this. I followed him religiously, and he started this website called Dribbble. 2 points . Dribbble is the world’s leading community for creatives to share, grow, and get hired. Feel to me like they really cared about the content in here. The Cork’d logo?! Connect with them on Dribbble; the global community for designers and creative professionals. They can say, “I’m going to do a takeoff on this.” Or they can sell merchandise around it. A connection is made when two people are officers, directors, or otherwise associated with the same company. A "Published by Andrew Wilkinson" tagline was put in the footer immediately after DN was bought. Create a free account to access additional details for Andrew Wilkinson and other profiles that you visit. Publish your open role on the world's #1 job board for creatives, Find and contact designers who are looking for their next opportunity, Search our database for top talent and post your listing on our popular job board. Perhaps make the "Popular/New" difference more prominent and forward? When he happened to mention he knew Dan, my jaw hit the floor. That way designers just starting out will have a much easier time learning (and learning the right things), and people outside the industry will do less assuming all we do is make pretty shit in PS all day. If any of you have any feedback, thoughts, or snark bombs for me, I’d love to hear them! Andrew Wilkinson. Exclusive project board perfect for Freelancers and Agencies. Anyway, I think it's cool that a lot of passionate designers have strong opinions about DN (it would be much worse for you if no one cared any more). The Tiny Boards site is kind of damning. :)". ... We have grown Dribbble from a team of 10 to 30+ people, the majority of whom are focused on building new features and growing the community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0la5DBtOVNI. If DN is awesome and there is a such a big staff, why is it so difficult to fix things like the dingus that used to alert someone when a link has already been posted? Bulletproof Web Design was the first book I read when I was learning the ropes, and I regularly reverse engineered his stylesheets on… DN is still listed on the core Tiny site—we view it as an individual company :-). Its structure may have served it well back when it was invite only, but now that everyone is welcome, it needs to change. And so the community cared. It's a great site to get the pulse of other designers and see what everyone's talking about (i.e. Which is why I’m insanely excited to share some big news…. I think dribbble turned into that way before the Tiny acquisition, And what's more, he somehow managed to single-handedly accomplish this evil goal without even changing the site itself in any meaningful way! Andrew first introduced us to Zack Onisko, Dribbble’s CEO. Just goes to show how nefarious he really is…. Looking at the homepage right now, it's more or less a sea of "SHOW DN"; what's the point if there's not really any differentiation? He was this famous designer, written all these books about web design. ! Maybe more colors/means of earning them? Judging by the duplication of content and from member comments, it's seems like that has been broken for a long time. “Wait. Much like Dribbble, his acquisition of Designer News quickly turned DN from a well-curated culture of design thought leadership and discussion into a monetized popularity contest. 1 of The Best Podcast Episodes for Andrew Wilkinson Bootstrapped. What I'm getting at is, these ideas are good but will they revitalize the community? Muahhahhahahhahahaha. Andrew, FWIW I really like the state of DN today. Martin Bavio, 2 years ago. SOMETHING has to be on the front page, and with so few engaged designers with something valuable to share, that means the spammers and content marketers have an easy job of it. This September, my moxie finally paid off. And worst of all, the servers we use to run DN are powered by the tears of designers! I've said it a million times and I'll say it again, what we need is a community built to support healthy conversations around how we each solve problems in our organisations. Color Awards – This is a super fun and enganging element of DN that I fell in love with. No warranties, expressed or implied, are provided for the business data on this site, its use, or its interpretation. But there’s a quantitative side and that’s the quantitative side. DN should be more community focused, with good content. That said, we’ve spent a ton of time brainstorming future feature ideas with the team, and we think there are tons of opportunities to make Dribbble even better in time :-). If I could turn off certain badges that I'm not interested in, that would certainly go a long way to seeing just the content I care about. The lack of downvoting, as others have mentioned, doesn't provide any means of letting the community self-regulate. That in mind, there's some other things that I'm just kind of confused about: DN Podcast – It hasn't been added to in over a year. When I first started MetaLab, Dan Cederholm was my hero. ! It's like "We buy job boards, look at our job boards... Job board, job board, job board... news site? We’re designers, first and foremost, and totally get what Dribbble and its users are about. I respect MetaLab and like the work you guys do, but the communities you run are, in their current state and in my humble opinion, more harmful to our industry than they are beneficial. I get that from a business perspective this may be a job board with a content marketing play, but that only works if it isn't transparent and your commitment to the content marketing part (the community itself) is serious. [Image title](http://imgur.com/0fwbUI3.gif). Dan, Rich, and the rest of the Dribbble team have done a fantastic job of evolving the site over time while carefully listening to feedback from all of you. We don’t view DN as a job board, but the job board there is one of the job boards we own, so the team there decided to list it. Also: because we now have so many great companies under one roof, we, a bit like Google, realized that we should probably brand our family of companies. Is the content always awesome? Andrew, FWIW I really like the state of DN today. And not just any fanboy, a WEB STANDARDS fanboy. Currently, you only need to have an account active for ~1 weeks time before you're allowed to post (if I'm remembering correctly). You may have tripled dribbble's team size, but how exactly has that translated into benefits for the designer community? See my comment below about it, or any of the previous conversations on the topic. I think your suggestions are really good, will love to see them implemented. Bulletproof Web Design was the first book I read when I was learning the ropes, and I regularly reverse engineered his stylesheets on SimpleBits to learn CSS tricks. I was a fanboy, in the purest sense of the word. Totally hear you on the Tiny Boards site. Dan and Rich’s official post over on the Dribbble blog. That seems crazy. It's also probably why it only takes ~5 upvotes to get near the top of the homepage. DN is still listed on the core Tiny site—we view it as an individual company :-). Andrew Wilkinson: Dribbble it’s actually such a cool story. No, but the content upvoting gives me a look into what other designers are endorsing. We plan to continue to buy more wonderful businesses, focusing on bootstrapped design-y businesses like Dribbble and Designer News. I too get frustrated by the number of SHOW DN posts on the homepage. Would be nice to have Andrew's version in here, but I'm not even sure he'll even notice this post, unfortunately. Victoria, I respect MetaLab and like the work you guys do, but the communities you run are, in their current state and in my humble opinion, more harmful to our industry than they are beneficial. Seriously though, I would love to understand why you think I'm Mr. Burns reincarnate. I like your idea about a community for deeper conversations, but maybe it's not Dribbble. 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