January 2012
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Intramural NYC
Last Thursday night, Rich and I trekked down to Manhattan to attend a special Dribbble meetup hosted by our friends at Squarespace. When we arrived in SOHO, we quickly realized this wasn’t going to be just another meetup. The folks at Squarespace had designed a team competition: Renting a mini hoop basketball game, using the Dribbble API to assign attendees to color-coded, headbanded teams....
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Time Out with Alex Rinker
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Alex for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Alex Rinker. I’m originally from Ketchum/Sun Valley, Idaho but have been living and working in Southern California the last 12 years. Currently I am...
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Time Out with Regina Casaleggio
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Regina for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
Hey folks. I’m Regina Casaleggio. I live Cape Town, South Africa. I’m a user interface designer. I mostly design web apps, websites and recently mobile apps. My...
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Time Out with Brent Jackson
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Brent for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I’m a senior UX designer at LivingSocial in Washington, DC. I try to focus on mobile, Web, icon and identity design. On the side, I created Geomicons.com as a...
December 2011
5 posts
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Time Out with Prekesh Chavda
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Prekesh for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
Hello :) I’m Prekesh Chavda. I’m from Loughborough, in England. I’m a designer and student. I design icons and user interfaces, but I like...
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Time Out with Justin Mezzell
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Justin for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I’m a designer/illustrator currently residing in Orlando, Florida but originally from the Golden Coast. I bide my time between Wes Anderson films tending to a...
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Time Out with James McDonald
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to James for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
Hello, I am James McDonald. I am a 21 year old UI Designer dabbling in UX, based in Glasgow, Scotland.
What are you working on?
Right now, I am grateful to be...
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Time Out with Ryan Putnam
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Ryan for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
Hey guys! I’m Ryan Putnam and I’m from Colorado Springs, CO. I’m a designer, illustrator and blogger. I run the design studio Rype Arts, the blog...
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May we suggest...
In our continued efforts to help members discover and follow great new work, we’ve launched a new Shots tab today called Suggestions. Our first release simply shows a stream of shots from people you don’t follow that have been liked by those you do. Hovering over the thumbnail will show you which member did the liking.
It’s quickly become one of our favorite views over here at...
November 2011
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Time Out with Teresa Wozniak
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Teresa for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I’m a student, graphic designer and hand letterer, and I hail from all over Canada: born in Calgary, raised in Ottawa and educated in Halifax.
What are you...
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Time Out with Dan Matutina
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Dan for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I’m Dan Matutina, a designer and illustrator from sunny Philippines. I’m based in Katipunan, Quezon City and I work in our new studio called Plus63. I also...
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Time Out with Kelli Anderson
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Kelli for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I hail from New Orleans but returned to Brooklyn, the birthplace of my maternal grandparents, for grad school 9 years ago. Strangers can no longer get away with...
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Time Out with Jon Contino
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Jon for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Jon Contino (Dribbble) and I’m currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up only about 20 minutes east of here on the south...
Dan & Rich on Founders Talk →
Dribbble founders, Dan & Rich, chatted with Adam Stacoviak on his esteemed 5by5 podcast last week.
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O Designer, Where Art Thou?
Today we’re fired up to announce a new feature for Pro members. Find Designers is a powerful tool to search for Dribbble members by location, skills, work availability, and more. Location search has been one of the most requested features since we started the site, so we’re thrilled to finally make it available. Being able to wade through the community’s ever-growing talent pool...
October 2011
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The New 400×300 Tee
We have a brand-spanking new t-shirt over at the Dribbble Store!
Available now in Guys and Girls sizes. Wear it with pride, Dribbblers.
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Show & Tell Boston Lineup
We just wanted to send a quick reminder about the first-ever Dribbble Meetup in Boston which is less than a week away. Start time is 7pm Monday, October 17 and our Show & Tell lineup of short talks includes:
Dan Cederholm with an introduction
Adam Darowski and Jeffrey Chupp on their Dribbble API web application, Liiikes
Chris Arvin on bringing Expedia Hotels to the iPad & tablets
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September 2011
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Time Out with Mary Kate McDevitt
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Mary Kate for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Mary Kate McDevitt and I currently live in Portland, OR. I work from home in my studio as a freelance illustrator mostly drawing and painting...
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Time Out with Riley Cran
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Riley for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I’m Riley Cran, I’m an independent designer and illustrator, and I enjoy designing brands and spot illustrations for cool companies.
I live in the...
Cheers for a job well done
9 days day ago we launched Job Ads on Dribbble. Since that time, we’ve seen:
40 job ads posted
13,969 click-throughs to view the details of a posted job
3,021 signed in users click-through to view a job
1,959 players click-through to view a job
We’ve also been thrilled at the caliber of employers who are advertising with us. The credit for attracting this many top-notch...
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Dribbble Show & Tell
Dribbble players and fans have been gathering all over the globe—except here in Massachusetts, the league’s home state. We’re going to fix that.
We’re pleased to announce the first official Dribbble Show & Tell Meetup in Boston, hosted by our friends at Terrible Labs at the Gemvara offices near South Station.
Here are the important details:
Monday October 17th from...
The First Brick in the Backboard
Dribbble is blessed with a lot of talented designers. Accordingly, we’ve had numerous employers ask to advertise open positions on Dribbble, but never an appropriate format to offer them. We’re happy to change that today.
Our first steps toward connecting designers and employers were the Hire Me button and profile Skills. Today we’re announcing a supply-side solution:
Dribbble...
August 2011
3 posts
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Time Out with Sean Farrell
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Sean for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Sean Farrell, and currently I work remote in Ann Arbor Michigan for Fixel as their identity designer and illustrator. I also own and operate my own...
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Mad skilllz? Add skills!
Two weeks ago, we gave Pro members the ability to display their work availability via the Hire Me button. Today, Pros can now add skills to their profile.
If you’re a Pro, head over to the Pro tab in your Account settings and add up to 10 keywords that describe the work you do (e.g. ui, illustration, icon design, lettering, css, etc.). Your skills list will display under your bio on your...
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Time Out with Jacqui Oakley
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Jacqui for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Jacqui Oakley and I’ve been illustrating for over ten years now mainly doing editorial illustrations but now I find myself doing more and more...
July 2011
3 posts
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Time Out with Glenn Jones
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Glenn for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I’m Glenn Jones, freelance graphic designer and illustrator from Auckland, New Zealand
What are you working on?
These days mostly my t-shirt designs...
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Hire Love
Dribbble has become a fantastic place to discover creative talent, and we’ve long been hearing success stories from Dribbble players who receive a steady stream of work requests via the site. We want to make connections between free agents and talent scouts even easier.
Today we’ve launched a new feature for Pro members, allowing them to indicate if they’re available for...
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Collect 'em all
We’ve introduced a small but fun new feature today: Player Cards. Dribbble is a site about showing your work, so we’ve updated member lists across the site to do the same—they now display a shot (if applicable) for each member in the list, as well as member location and a few stats.
In addition to looking much better than our old lists, we hope this view of users makes it easier to...
June 2011
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Time Out with Dana Tanamachi
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Dana for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Dana Tanamachi and I’m a graphic designer and custom chalk letterer who hails from the Lone Star State, but currently resides in Brooklyn, New...
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Time Out with Evan Stremke
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Evan for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Evan Stremke. I grew up in Milwaukee, lived and studied in Minneapolis for four years, and now work as a designer at Planet Propaganda in Madison,...
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Time Out with Sarah Mick
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Sarah for being today’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I’m Sarah Mick! Designer, Illustrator and wannabe-photographer. I’m currently chillin’ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but will be moving to the...
May 2011
3 posts
Color Coding
One of our focal points at Dribbble is helping you discover interesting shots. Toward that end, we launched Buckets last week. Today we’re happy to release Colors.
You can now search for shots by color. Just head over to the color search page (accessible via the Explore menu). There are color swatches at the top. We tried to provide broad coverage, but the swatch results are far from exhaustive...
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New Feature: Buckets
There’s an amazing variety of shots uploaded on Dribbble every day, and it’s our continual challenge to make it easier to discover new and interesting content. Today we’ve launched Buckets to help the community participate in curating Dribbble.
Buckets are simply collections of shots that any Dribbble member can create. We think they will be a handy way to organize the great...
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Dribbbling on The Deck
For the past year, we’ve sold our own advertising on Dribbble. It put food on the table as we became a company, was a tremendous learning experience, and allowed us to work with some fantastic, like-minded companies, helping them gain exposure in front of the community. But it was also a tremendous amount of work. Our tiny team would prefer to focus on efforts that directly affect the app...
April 2011
6 posts
Mea culpa, stat
Wanted to note that we made a fix to our Pro stats for 30-day counts of shot views. Due to a bug in our SQL, we’ve been omitting views/clicks that come from anonymous (non-Dribbble) users in these counts. Thus we’ve been underreporting the 30-day shot views numbers. (By how much depends on what percentage of a user’s views/clicks come from Dribbblers.)
We’ve made the fix...
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Go Pro!
We’re super excited today to announce the release of Dribbble Pro, a suite of extra features for existing players for just $19 USD per year.
In an earlier blog post, we outlined a roadmap for the future, noting that our next challenge was sustainability—adding revenue to keep up with the growth of the site. Dribbble Pro is our first step in that direction. We’ve left the core Dribbble...
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Dribbble Meetups Everywhere →
We’ve set up a Meetups Everywhere account for Dribbblers around the globe to set up gatherings (hudddles?). 35 communities have already formed, with a meetup tonight in Austin, TX, and others being scheduled as well. We hope this will help organize in-person chats with fellow creatives in your area.
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Timeout with Trent Walton
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. Many thanks to Trent for being this week’s interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
My name is Trent Walton, and I’m founder & 1/3 of Paravel. We’re based out of Austin, TX, though I live west of Austin in the Texas Hill Country in...
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Timeout with Rogie
Timeouts are lightning-quick interviews. Five questions to help you get to know the players holding court at Dribbble. We’ll be featuring a different player on a (hopefully) regular basis here on the blog. Many thanks to Rogie (pronounced RAH-GEE just FYI) for being the inaugural interviewee.
Who are you? Let us know where you hail from and what you do.
I’m Rogie King. Homeschooled,...
March 2011
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Advertise on Dribbble in April
April 1st is just around the corner and we have some limited space still available for advertising. Our traffic and community continue to grow (12M+ impressions served last month) and with prices starting at $295 for a monthly spot, it’s a fantastic way to promote your business to our vibrant creative community. Visit dribbble.com/site/advertise or contact [at] dribbble dot com for more...
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Some Subtle Updates
Astute dribbblers may have noticed a few subtle updates to the UI that went live over the weekend. While on the surface the changes might seem tiny or easily unnoticed, the release had a gigantic amount under the covers that we’re currently testing privately. This will pave the way for an exciting announcement soonish.
One notable feature that’s up and running for everyone right now...
Invitation Expiration
We’d like to issue some invitations this month! Before doing so, it’s worth noting a small change to the way invitations work. We’ve added an expiration date to invitations (currently 30 days from the date an invitation is sent). Once an invitation has expired, it can no longer be used to sign up and will be restored to the sender.
One of our most common requests is from folks...
January 2011
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To Infinity and Beyond
We wanted to take a moment to talk about our road map for the future. But first, a little history …
When we started this endeavor as a side project, we thought Dribbble might hold interest to a small niche community. Upon emerging from our beta 8 months ago, we (and our servers) were floored by the response. The niche was bigger than we thought. We quickly saw potential to create...
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Dribbble is ... Fan-tastic
Social media star and dribbler (only two b’s?!) Shaquille O’Neal informs us as @the_real_shaq that he’s very “quotatious.” (His word—note the quotatious marks.) Following in his giant footsteps, Dribbble will soon be very … Spectatious.
We’ll be opening up the site in waves to anyone with a Twitter account who wants to follow the action more closely:...
December 2010
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Holiday Happy Hour Winners
With 161 rebounds in just 1 hour, the Holiday Happy Hour was a wonderful, wild event. Thanks very much to all who entered, voted and cheered.
Congrats to the top 3 finishers!
The Official Snoman Kit™ by Bobby McKenna
A Scientific Examination of Extraordinary Proportions by Tyler Galpin
Snowflake Shrug by Matthew Braun
… and to the Coaches’ Pick!
Snowflake Mess by Riley Cran
As...
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Advertising on Dribbble in 2011
We are now booking ads for January, February and March of 2011. There is a 10% discount for booking all three months up front.
We’ve revisited our advertising offerings and created more, smaller traffic blocks to open up additional slots. We’ve also added a new type of ad that runs for one week at the top of our most popular pages, which is great for promotions and product releases.
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Holiday Happy Hour
With the holidays fast approaching, we’d thought it’d be fun to run a special rebound playoff to celebrate the joyous season of egg nog and pixeltoe. Given a simple theme and a one hour time limit, how creative can you be?
On Thursday, December 16th, we’ll be hosting Holiday Happy Hour! At 2pm EST sharp, we’ll upload a shot containing a simple holiday theme (from the...
November 2010
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Dribbble meetup in Belgium →
Dribbblers Liam McCabe and Pedja Rusic are organizing a Dribbble meetup in Bbbrussels, Bbbelgium on Saturday, December 18. We hope it’ll be the first of many.
Interested in organizing Dribbble meetups in your area? Let us know!