--- title: 99Designs Reviews meta_title: '99Designs Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 32 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how 99Designs works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.0 review_count: 32 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-21' parent_category: name: Staffing Services url: https://www.g2.com/categories/staffing-services --- # 99Designs Reviews **Vendor:** 99Designs **Category:** [On-Demand Staffing Services](https://www.g2.com/categories/on-demand-staffing-services) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 32 ## About 99Designs 99designs is the world’s largest on-demand design marketplace, connecting a global community of freelance designers with businesses of all sizes to complete their design needs. ## 99Designs Reviews ### 1. Easy Platform and Design Contests Make Finding the Right Designer Simple **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Loni S. | Operations Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2026 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** The ease of the platform and the contests that allow us to review various designs from different designers to help us find the designer perfect for our brand. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** The service charges add up if you have mulitple small projects. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** Would be nice to use AI design tools alongside graphic designers somehow. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've used 99Designs for years and they always connect us with great designers and minimize the time it takes to find a designer that works for our brand. ### 2. Great resource for designers and design searchers. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Сергей . | Художник компьютерной графики, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **Describe the project or task 99Designs helped with:** This site has helped me a lot in developing my portfolio and improving my design skill. With 99 designs contests, I can earn high sums for my work and encourage myself to produce high quality product and fast design process. **What do you like best about 99Designs?** Most of all I like the possibility of direct access to clients and real projects around the world. Also, I noted that thanks to 99 designs, I can work continuously and compensate for the unsuccessful tenders with a high price for the project. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** I am not very happy with the level of perception of the design itself by clients, you often understand that in order to please the client you need to do not a high-quality design, but something that the client likes. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** I definitely recommend this site, specially to designers beginners. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** This site has helped me develop my design skill and expand my portfolio. By participating in contests, I can simultaneously develop my other resources, such as microstocks and social networks. ### 3. Great Platform to fulfil your design requirements **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** Professional work quality very interesting contest mode hire designers with ease **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** no standard way to rate designs in a contest. have to choose manually can offer more value for designers **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** connecting with design professionals across the globe getting all types of design requirements completed with good quality ### 4. Great way to get quick designs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julie D. | Website Department Head, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** The logo contest helps you widen your horizon for design inspiration - designers compete for your approval and you can get to choose from far more options than if you just picked a single designer. Once you choose a winning design it is easy to continue to work with the designer to perfect your logo. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** It's pricier than working directly with a designer so if you already know what you want in the logo it would be better for you to find a cheaper option - this is just great if you are open to new ideas and aren't sold on any specific design yet. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** If you don't know what you want for your logo or are open to new ideas 99designs is a great choice for you. If you know exactly what you want and just need someone to create it - just go with a single designer (99designs offers this option though too!) **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Logo and Branding needs ### 5. Online System for Great Logos **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris W. | Assistant Director of Housing and Residence Life for Marketing and Communications and Technology, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2019 ### 6. One-stop shop for high-quality custom designs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Net R. | Marketing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** Customer service and communication efforts always exceed expectations. We have been utilizing 99Designs for the past 3 years for all of our banner creatives. Would recommend this platform to anyone and everyone. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** Sometimes when we have a tight deadline it can be difficult due to the betting feature for freelancers. Overall NetReputation as a company admired the work 99Design does. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** If you are seeking a design to make a quick yet high-quality engaging creative we highly recommend that you check 99Designs out. Zero commitment you can hire as you please. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a startup company, we sometimes have a limited marketing budget. Being able to connect quickly with a freelancer at a fraction of the price as hiring an employee is an excellent feature for SMBs like us. ### 7. Good results, but complicated old school process **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian M. | Owner/CEO, Computer & Network Security, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** Access to a large number of talented designers that would be difficult to reach otherwise. The results were above my expectations and returned very quickly. It was relatively easy to filter through low quality results and narrow down the selection to just a few high quality designers that I continued to work with. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** I think the chat feature is somewhat broken in terms of UX design. It suggests to be a chat but new responses don't show up, you have to reload the page manually. Notifications are partly for comments in conversations and partly for comments on individual drafts which makes handling error prone. 99Designs should make the messenger a real live-chat feature. E.g. in an overlay box next to the designs, but always just one conversation per designer, not per design draft please. 99Designs should let go with those strict rules that make clients feel like in a prison. People like me want to communicate freely. It's my own risk to have conversations outside 99Designs anyway, so why do they threaten me if I want to? Proxying/censoring all conversations is not the way to go to earn trust from clients. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** Make sure your specifications are complete and well thought through. That saves time and avoids conflicts with the 99Designs staff later. Alterations of the specifications are not welcome and designers get their drafts deleted if they exceed the scope of the specified project (even if designer AND customer welcome them). **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time savings when finding and hiring designers. Bigger variety of ideas and drafts than when working with just one designer or agency. ### 8. Convenient Logo Outsourcing Marketplace for Businesses and Freelancers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicole B. | Senior Brand Manager, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** I like how 99Designs have grown from simple contest site to one if not the biggest marketplace for creative design. I myself have bought great creative work for our campaigns and have made tremendous success working with impeccable talents all over the globe. They have escrow system that will ensure you get the best possible deal without being run-over. You can opt for a blind contest to make sure the entries are unique and it follows your strict brief. You can be very specific with your brief and still get great results. I used 99Designs everytime we have huge projects and market launches. I have several freelancers of my picks ready to be hired, and they are all thanks to 99Designs. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** The betting process takes some time, but of course everything that is worth it really does take some time. But when you have a tight schedule, better improve their betted freelancers if people are wary of running their own contests. That's just one thing I noticed, but aside from that, nothing much that will hinder a good result from them. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** Yes, 99deisgns have grown from its humble beginning to one of the largest freelance marketplaces in creative space. Highly recommended especially when you are in doubt about outsourcing your work. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** A lot, if I mentioned all, it would take a whole day. It saved our department a load of money hiring an in-house talent that usually is not a good fit for how we wanted it to be. Since we are a department of resul-basis, we like to keep things simple. So we decided to outsource the creative work, and we found 99Designs has a huge marketplace of talents and creatives we can choose from. We can be very specific with our brief and still get it on our target schedule. ### 9. 99 Designs is one of our secret weapons **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** The best thing about 99 Designs is the quality of talent on the platform. Other gig-based platforms have a wide range of talent, but 99 Designs trends towards the higher end. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** There's not much to dislike. We've always received what we've paid for and have been quite happy with the results. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** If you've tried other gig-based design services and been disappointed, try 99 Designs. We've always been happy with the results. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We don't have regular design needs. 99 Designs gives us access to high quality talent on an as-needed basis at a fair price. ### 10. Good Cheap Brand Building Platform for a Starting Point. **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ximena G. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** The way you get to choose to explain in a seamless way, what you want your brand to look like to the people who are going to help you create your brand. I liked the way you could speak to your designers in order for them to change what you did and didn't like, so they could improve and upload a better logo. I liked the timing for both the "manager" and the "designer", giving us a time frame to do things and when to do the things we need to. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** The fact that the people creating a logo are just recycling something they have used in the past without looking at the title of your project. The fact that the "designers" grab existing well-known logos and use them as their own. example: I had a person try to sell me their idea with the adobe creative suite logo edited. I disliked that the designers had no experience and were not interested in helping my brand but were more interested in the money on the plate. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** I would do a little bit more research before getting into this site or get real designers that are committed to making your brand stand out from other brands. These designers are just in for the money and not much for the design of the brand you are seeking or for your company's culture. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** An adjacent company needed a new brand look to better portray their business to their clients. We needed something that could differentiate this company from us. ### 11. Great website for professional designs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lovely K. | Manager | Online Sales and Marketing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** The way of getting professional designers is more easier now. 99 design is a great platform to communicate with thousands of professional designers and get the expected design perfectly. I used 99 design for many times to get the design for our logo, business card and packaging design. Creating a contest and managing is very easy and interesting. I can talk with the designers when I need to discuss and need to cooperate my necessity to them. A to Z of getting a design done is more easier in 99 design than other platforms. Always enjoy the cooperation with the designers! **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** No exact idea about the refund policy of 99 design. I think the refund policy should more easier. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** Recommended to get done your final design as quick as possible **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used 99 designed to get our logo and business card done when We ware started our new projects. Got quick response and quick service from 99 design. I got the final design as quick as possible. Like it to stay with 99 design. ### 12. Good product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex J. | cocinero, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** 99 design is a platform where contests sell and buy design services. The basic operation is that the person who needs a logo, a book cover, a product label, a web design ... is registered on the web, fill in your brief where you give the information of what you are looking for, decide how much you want to pay and Create a contest for 7 days. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** The first thing I have to say is that I do not like the theme of design contests. It seems to me that in any profession in which competitions are held, the professional is degraded and their work is not valued with dignity. An example: recently my sister calls me and tells me that there is a brand that she likes very much that she has opened a contest for designers to send their proposals for the bags of the new season (we are going to have a full-fledged packaging job). The prize: a € 150 voucher to spend on your products. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** 1º They will receive many more designs, it is a great variety of styles, that if they hire a professional so they do not have to think about the general concept, they save the art director. 2nd That type of work costs more than € 150 3º You have to spend your prize if or if in your products, the money returns to your hands! It's a win-win, but for the clear company ... As I said and I think you can understand, I'm not a fan of this type of contest, but in turn, as I do not like to judge or criticize something without knowing it first hand, I decided to register in 99 design and today I tell you my experience **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are different price packages, which means that the more you pay, obviously better designs will be received and there is even a plus package in which only selected designers with a great track record on the platform participate. During the contest week, the designers who sign up for their contest send proposals and receive feedback from the client so they can make improvements in their designs and be the winners. Once the stage of proposals has passed, the client has the option to close the contest and decide if he does not like any can leave the contest deserted or choose the designs that pass to a final of 3 days where the designers make changes regarding the feedback they receive and in the end there is a winner. ### 13. Great resource to find the best designs for your projects **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** I really like that I can start a contest and get a wide variety of options and work 1:1 with designers during the contest to get their designs as close as possible to what we're looking for. I also really like that if I know what I want and I have a designer I've worked with in the past, I can work 1:1 with them and get quick projects across the finish line. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** I don't like that there isn't the option for me to create a profile that includes company information, what we do, and common documents I attach to my contests and projects. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** There are designers from all over the world connecting through 99designs. Sometimes there are language barriers but if you're patient, polite, and clear, you can make great things happen together. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We don't have a large in-house creative team. We're a very small business and we don't always have time to create the assets we need for our marketing efforts. 99designs helps us get our projects done quickly and effectively. ### 14. okay **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** 99designs is platform where you can meet graphic designers and outsource graphic works such as logo designing at an affordable pricing.when we order we get multiple customized design options from which we can choose the one we like and thats a great option. the money back policy is great and you could get your money back if the submitted designs do not meet the criteria that youre looking for, the interface is something to talk about. its actually very beautiful and you could feel it too. the platform is very easy to navigate through and simple too. when designing there are several options available, we can give the requirements such as coulor and such and also there are several price tiers available from which you could choose the one that comes under your budget. also there are options to hire a single person or crowdsource the work according to the budget you have, you can also send the logo for revisions if you like. the customer service is great and always replies fast to your questions and i'm very satisfied with them. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** the money back guarantee does not apply on all cases but only to those contents where the prize was not fixed. you should go with higher tiers if you need quality work **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** this is a great platform if youre looing for quality. the pricing isn't cheap too. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** its a platform where you can meet professional graphics designers ### 15. Looking for Design work **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rod R. | Accounts Payable Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** I like the feel and easy way to access your work. I enjoy the flow. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** Not very easy to actually get a lot of work without putting a ton of time into it, if you have that sort of time. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** I'd recommend maybe some support of newbie designers to help them get their freelancing businesses off the ground **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently, I'm not solving any problems with it, except maybe a possible outlet for some side income. ### 16. Excellent Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael D. | President, Paperback Expert | Positioning Experts for Business Growth, Publishing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** We use 99Designs for many different projects. I LOVE the multiple designers they give us access to and the creativity. It's also really simple to use and if you ever have a question the staff is right there to help. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** Thus far I've found nothing that I dislike. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Design for logos, images, book covers, ebook covers, websites, and more. The service is fast, creative, and reliable. ### 17. The web for designers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** The meeting point for all freelance designers. You can find logos, ideas, or anything you need related to design. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** By belonging to a website where everyone can enter, there are certain doubts, but their customer service knows how to resolve them. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are a point of reference for both designers and illustrators, as well as connecting clients and artists. ### 18. Interesting but Time Consuming **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kurt D. | Creative Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** There was an easy way to communicate with the designer, the platform was comfortable, and the end product was good. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** There were many hours spent organising with the designer, they seemed new to the process and there flow was choppy and felt unorganised.. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Branding and identity was our goal. We realised working with a local designer face to face would be more efficient to understand the broader scope of the work, that way it would be a more organic interaction where we could ask more questions and have a better conversation. ### 19. Hit and Miss **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** Numerous entries, unlimited reiterations, ability to get a number of designers providing their input to pinpoint the exact design. Very helpful when you're unclear on the directions you want to take with your design. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** Low overall quality of entries, most designers reutilize the same concepts over and over, a lot of copying, takes too much time to get your points across, since the people have different levels of language as well as different communication styles. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** Stay focused, do not allow the number of entries to overwhelm you, try to have a good idea of what you want before starting, otherwise you'll spend tens of hours sifting through dozens of sub-par entries. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rebranding, Graphic design for pront, and social media use. Fast turnaround, OK quality of work. ### 20. Freelance Designers on Demand **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** You can set a rate that's within budget and willing designers who can meet that budget will create some work that you choose from and pick the one you like the most. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** Sometimes the designers aren't great, but overall a good platform **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** It's awesome and get creative with your requests! The designers will surprise you! **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We sometime needs just random graphics or art on short notice and this makes it easy to get what we need fast and inexpensivly. ### 21. Decent Options for the Price, But A Lot of Trust Involved **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** I loved receiving numerous designs that I was able to accept and reject without going through rounds of edits. It was nice to have a non-objective party output what I wanted the brand to emulate. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** Being approached by so many developers after the contest. It was somewhat helpful at first, but now I just feel like my name and company are on a spam list we can't get off of. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** Be ready to make decisions quickly - know what you want to receive from the service and be committed to the process. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Website design by creative, talented people that are looking to visually design what you verbally request. ### 22. CEO **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luke J. | Co-founder & CEO, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** Having multiple options to choose from for your final design is a great aspect of this service. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** Frankly, I have had no issues with 99Designs. Fingers crossed it stays that way! **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used them to create a logo that was professional looking and cheap enough to be a good deal for a startup. ### 23. Chipping away at the legitimacy of a whole industry **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** N/A - the designs are cheap I guess, but you get what you pay for... **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** This platform forces designers to lower their rate to compete with those who are not professionals. The work that is outputted is forced on a deadline and the final product shows/ **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** Its not worth it, as a professional you should look for a place where a client will give you fair value for your skill and expertise. This is not it. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** None, I have stopped using this software ### 24. Not a serious platform for design work **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** It is cheap and easy to use. You get a lot of options. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** Quantity just can't make up for quality when you need design service. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** Hire a real design and branding firm **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've been trying to create good brand design elements like logos, typography, collateral and brand standards. ### 25. great site, found some great artists **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** i was able to find a really great designer for our real estate logo. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** honestly, not much. I thought the pricing was pretty fair. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** Very good option for finding the right designer for your company , team, or any organization's logo. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** well we now a have a logo that catches a customers eye when thinking about buying or selling real estate. We had this done two years ago and still use it and get plenty of compliments. ### 26. Entry level **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** The site is great you need something done you can see who would do it for cheap **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** Alot of people on this site are not professional something you get what you pay for **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Outsourcing at its finest ### 27. Great programme! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul D. | Supply Officer, Government Administration, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** Easy interface, very user friendly. I don't have anything negative to say. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** I actually like everything, As I mentioned before, great program **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great program for graphic design, easy to use ### 28. Good use of open innovation **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** The way the designs are sourced is very good **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** too many uncategorized things that can get lost **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** getting new ideas is easier and also cost-effective ### 29. Ok, but not the greatest options **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** They did an ok job of designing a logo for a client **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** Lack of quality options that were given to my client. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Logo ### 30. Great website for affordable, professional logos **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike A. | Senior Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2016 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** What I love about 99Designs is how simple and efficient is to run a logo design contest to get the exact logo you are looking for. The interface is extremely easy to use and allows you to comment on various parts of a design to give good feedback to designers. I've also found that their community of designers is very large and diverse which gives you a wide selection of options for your logo contest. I also really like that there is a money back guarantee which means you will always get a logo you're happy with. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** The one thing I don't like, is that when you archive designs in a contest, how there is an Archive wordmark placed over the designs. Sometimes I want to look back at designs that I have archived to make sure I didn't accidentally archive a design that I want. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** I would say the one thing that were hesitant about was the cost, but after a couple of contests, I would say that this is non-issue. The cost is definitely worth it, and you'll be glad you went with 99Designs. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used 99Designs for two different logos. One logo is for our company and the other is for one of our products. Both times we received a logo that we were very happy with and not something we could have done ourselves. We have felt like the cost was more than worth it for the end product. ### 31. Delivers results but doesn't impress. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2017 **Describe the project or task 99Designs helped with:** I have used 99designs twice so far and it has delivered the expected results but it hasn't really impressed me. The level of creativity and innovation of the designers involved in the contests in the lowest level package, that costs $299 for a logo, is very minimal. I have used this platform to create business logos. **What do you like best about 99Designs?** The friendly usability of the platform is the upside of the product. It's extremely straight forward, you can edit your brief details at anytime, and message the entire list of designers working on your contest at once, as well as individually. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** I dislike the fact that the more feedback you provide, the less variety you get in the design options. The designers start copying the designs that you say you like and all designs start looking much like each other because they ultimately want to win the contest so they get paid. This removes the surprise element and I personally think that it defeats the purpose of having multiple designers working on your project. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** If you are looking for an outstanding logo for you brand that will add value and you will be truly happy with, don't choose the lowest level package. I can't confirm that the more expensive options will deliver a much better result but from my personal experience, the lowest level package will deliver a professional looking logo but yet not impressive. ### 32. High quality designs for your website or logo **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathaniel B. | Chief Operating Ninja, Information Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2016 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** I love the variety and options that the numerous designers offer on 99designs. I am a big fan of simply telling them about your brand and designers creating logos based on your guidelines! **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** I dislike the deadlines that 99designs sets. I would like more time to choose a design or collect additional designs. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** They offer guarantees of work so your downside is minimal. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We started a new company and used 99designs for the logo and the website. 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