99Designs Reviews & Provider Details

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The service charges add up if you have mulitple small projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Professional work quality

very interesting contest mode

hire designers with ease Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

no standard way to rate designs in a contest. have to choose manually

can offer more value for designers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's not much to dislike. We've always received what we've paid for and have been quite happy with the results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.