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What is Design Float?
Design Float is a social media site dedicated to the design industry. Design Float aims to collect and organize design-related content from across the web while letting the community float the best articles to the top pages of their categories and sink the most irrelevant one’s to the bottom. The ultimate goal of Design Float is to, hopefully, categorize the huge amount of design-related content available on the web into neat and easy to navigate pages of articles in order of importance/relevance as decided by the community.
The History of Design Float
Design Float started with a goal of simplifying and removing the frustrations associated with locating the best design-related content available on the web.
While Digg provides a wonderful alternative to Google, I feel that they have yet to provide enough depth in the content they organize. With no subcategories of its own, the “Design” category has become an unorganized dump of everything from the latest Dodge Charger concept car photographs to this. And while these things are cool, they make it more difficult for me to find the more specific content I am interested in finding. If I am a typographer, chances are content related to typography is never going to make it to the front page of Digg>Design, therefore I am forced to sift through page after page of search results for content related to typography. This can become time consuming and frustrating. Where do I start?
There are many quality and useful websites within the online design community that provide everything from inspiration to daily industry news, but how do I chose a favorite? Every morning I take about 15 minutes to catch up on the latest news, techniques, and beautiful new CSS designed websites. And throughout the day, as I find myself in a slump or in need of a break, I go back to the same websites for more inspiration and information. But with so many great resources, I can’t help but feel like I’m probably missing something. And to be honest, I get tired of sifting through my ever growing list of del.icio.us bookmarks and guessing which source is going to offer todays best content. With Design Float, the days content is automatically pulled in from an ever-growing list of syndicated online publications. Everything from the latest logos submitted at Logo Pond to the latest edition of A List Apart. It’s all here and it’s all neatly organized and graded by the Design Float community. Now the best content from accross the online design community floats its way to the top of each category, ready for our viewing pleasure. Design Float is Better for Publishers
As Digg becomes more and more cluttered, it becomes increasingly difficult for niche publishers to use Digg as a source of exposure. When Digg first launched, it was a great platform for publishers accross genres to bring exposure to their content. But the more Digg grows, the harder it becomes for publishers to get their content out there as they begin competeting with all the other genres Digg caters too. With Design Float, publishers only have to worry about competeting with other design related content. The Design Float subcategories make it even more likely that a publishers content will be not only read but picked up by other distribution channels through our category and subcategory specific RSS feeds. We have and will continue to do everything we can to ensure that the most helpful and most relevent design related content make it onto the screens of the readers and visitors who are most interested in it.
About the Creator
My name is Andrew Egenes. I am a 23 year-old web designer and developer currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. I am 100% self taught and enjoy all aspects of web design and development. I have a great appreciation for the standards and accessibility movement and pride myself in building (mostly) CSS and XHTML valid websites. I created Design Float out of my long time frustration with finding relevent design-related content quickly and easily, without having to browse through dozens and even hundreds of websites. I regularly do not update my personal portfolio site, Britepilot. I always love hearing from other designers, developers, and entrepreneurs so feel free to drop me an email and share your thoughts, ideas, etc!
Interview: January 2, 2008
Interview: February 2, 2008
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