Find a designer? Found a new client!

11th October, 2008 by Simon Mundy

It's now been a little over 6 months since the new AGDA site has gone live with the new 'Find a designer' section. Just having the opportunity to have a peek at everyone's profile, put faces to names and get a better idea of what's going on work-wise around Australia has been a lot of fun.

But more importantly, this section is aimed at promoting you and your work to the industry at large. What we're keen to hear is... has it worked? Have you had some leads or even scored a few new projects simply by clients discovering you here?

We would love to hear any stories - good and bad - about your experiences with the directory. How can we make it better? What do you like about it?

Look forward to your thoughts.

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Loving the new site. I've had three different people contact me about doing work for them after seeing my profile. Is particularly handy because I don't have a website so to have an online presence is brilliant. I hadn't anticipated this as I kind of assumed only designers would be coming to the AGDA site but NO. Actual clients are scouting around too! I'd love it even more if we were able to post PDFs...am I dreaming?...
Posted by Liana Lucca-Pope on 11th October 2008

I have had clients mention they found me through the AGDA site. Perhaps a more prominent 'Find a Designer' search function on the home page would help even more? At the moment 'designers becoming members' gets more prominence. But if getting work through the site is a member benefit, then the focus should be on making it easy for potential clients to navigate.

A 'keyword search' field in 'Find a Designer' would be great too - currently you can search by individual/studio, state/territory, and 'name' - but I think a keyword search which included names would be more beneficial. That way, if I was an client looking for a STUDIO in VICTORIA who did BROCHURES, in one click a list of names would appear.

Great looking site though, and love that you are requesting (and listening to) member feedback.

Cheers.
Posted by Tess McCabe on 12th October 2008

Well said Tess. I agree with all of that.
Cheers, Liana
Posted by Liana Lucca-Pope on 21st October 2008

Indeed - great feedback. We'll schedule in some improvements to this as soon as possible. Cheers
Posted by Simon Mundy on 27th October 2008

We love the 'new' site.

We've been happy to have nabbed a few clients through it. Some good, some not so good. The search ideas as mentioned above would be great to look into. Thanks.
Posted by Shamus Hoare on 17th December 2008