Hi all,

 

Like many of you, I enjoy designing and building websites and am keen to constantly develop and practice my skills. To do this, I usually build sites for friends, undertake design contests, or get jobs from freelancing websites. However, this can sometimes be frustrating, and it would be nice to be able to practice my skills purely for the fun of doing it. I have been looking online for some sample web design briefs from which to build a site from, but there are not many out there to choose from.

 

So, I've had the idea of a website for practicing our trade. Here's the concept:

 

A depository of realistic design/development briefs

You will be able to download realistic project briefs to work on, probably organised into Easy, Intermediate or Advanced. These can be posted by users.

 

Peer assessment of solutions

The users will be able to post their solutions for critical assessment by other users of the website. I'm thinking some sort of voting system could be utilised here.

 

Collaborative work opportunities

There will be opportunites for collaborative work. For example, a designer might create the designs in a psd, and another user who might be a developer can code this into a functional website. The project briefs should reflect clearly the distinction between the two tasks.

 

 

I hope that the concept is clear to everyone. I think it would be great practice for beginners and professionals alike. It could also help with building a portfolio for people just starting out.

 

So my question to the community is: Would you be interested in something like this? I'd love to hear of any ideas you might want to chuck into the mixer.

 

Thanks,

Zach

That sounds like a really great and unique idea. You could be onto a very popular website if you developed this very well.

 

For multiple people working on the same project (not together just working towards the same end goal) you could have a voting system wherby anybody can vote on one of two projects. I'll make up a quick graphic in a second to demonstrate what I mean.

Edited November 18, 201312 yr by SeikoShadow