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The first can be found on many sites including 99designs.com. Finding the latter is much harder. Lots and lots of networking is probably your best bet. As a ui designer I can say that there are no specific designer events you will find me at. Most design events focus on print design, and multimedia design is a synonym for Flash in the design world.

If you do do a job posting don't call the position web designer. Call it interface designer or ux designer. The applicants you get should be much more qualified.

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Take the coloring of highways. I actually find Bing's use of multiple colors greatly increases legibility. The increase in contrast also makes it easier to scan over the map. I cannot see how the author can state that less colors results in increased legibility.

Bing Maps to me has a superior coloring scheme. When I look at Google Maps they look like FisherPrice drew the map. Bing Maps' warm and desaturated color scheme makes it feel more mature and consequently much more pleasant to look at.

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I guess my point is that categories are a bad idea. You put MailChimp in sales, but it should be in marketing. Then again, what is the difference between marketing and sales? Productivity is really a subcategory of all the others. You could have a productivity app that focuses entirely on client management, but then that would be called a CRM.

Don't really have a solution, just found it confusing as it currently is.

edit: Took another look. Even knowing it exists I still can't find it.

1) Don't require me to have clients, project, or tasks. Just allow freeform entry. If I don't want to assign time to a project, but just a client I should be able to.

2) Let me mark hours as billed! I don't want to have a project list that looks like, "Project 1a, Project 1b, Project 1c). It makes reporting messy.

3) Don't have New Project, New Client, etc. screens. Just create them when I enter it into the form.

4) Must have a good time tracker that I can start, close, and come back to later to submit.

Doesn't seem that hard to me. Freckle is the one that come closest, and their UI is subpar and they don't allow you to mark hours as billed.

What a load of crap. Graphic design is to print what web design is to the web. You cannot take a print designer and expect him to design websites. It is two _completely_ different fields.

Design has specialties, and it just so happens that the term graphic designer has evolved into describing designers that are good at working with the physical print medium. On the other hand the term web designer described people that are good at working with interactive display-based design.

Web designers, because they are working in an interactive medium, is expected to know UX design theory. It is part of the job. It is one of the many things that sets them apart from print designers. If they can't handle it perhaps they are just a crappy designer?