Today we released a major upgrade to Redesignme Connect after weeks of brainstorming, designing & programming. We now arrived at version 4.6.
About Connect
For starters, Redesignme Connect is our creative community, where over 9000 people from all parts of the world solve Challenges that companies upload. Challenges range from food companies that need ideas for new packaging to companies that are in search of a name for their new service or business.
Collaboration & Profile
Redesignme Connect is all about collaboration, creativity, be seen and most important: connecting with others. That’s why we’ve redesigned the profile pages entirely. We now introduce a personal wall (obviously inspired by Facebook) where people can tell what they are working on and they can send eachother personal messages. People can follow other people who’s work they like, and get an overview of all their work with the click of a button. Also the portfolio section has been extended, enabling people to show other work they did, which is not related to Challenges.
Company pages
If you run your own company, or work for one, you can now have a dedicated company page where you can show & tell about your company. The page also shows all Challenges that you ran or have been running. Use it to advertise your business, or attract more people to your Challenges.
Simplified ordering process
We also simplified to ordering process for companies that wish to upload a Challenge. We now introduce 3 simple packages (A, B and C) for a fixed price of € 499, €999 and € 1.499 depending on the total amount of rewards you’d want to set and guidance you’d like from our community manager Eveline.
Site speed improvement & several small changes
Most of the content is now loaded with AJAX which massively speeds up loading times. The header section of the site is now cleaner, introducing a slick drop-down panel for the login, registration and profile settings controls. Your activity can be automatically posted to your Twitter or Facebook wall, and you can control what gets posted and what not.
Mobile version (in the making)
And last but not least, we introduced a (basic) mobile version of the site. If you now surf to the site using your iPhone or Android phone, you’ll see a clear overview of all latest site activity. The mobile version is build on jQuery Mobile. Functionality is still very basic, but this is something we will be working on in the next months.
So that’s a lot, and we will continue to work on our most loved community. Have a lot of fun with the new features and let us now what you think. Happy Redesigning!
Maxim Schram
CEO, Redesignme.