I hosted a competition to fix my terrible website

QUICK CALLOUTS - We got the animation down to 1.4mb with minor optimizations, gonna see if we can get below 1mb 👀 ty Rive for help! - I added a coupon code to get 3 free months of UploadThing's 100gb plan: "designishard" - UIUXPhil is offering a 50% discount to anyone who books him for design work after seeing this video. Reach out via Twitter x.com/uiuxphil - Kayla has been INCREDIBLE to work with. She's done a ton of revisions, is super responsive, and is an EASY recommendation to work with x.com/kayladotdev - Tom's Figma designs were so good I would hire him off of those alone. x.com/tomblixt CHARITIES - Tom's $500 donation went to ClientEarth - Kayla's $500 donation went to Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation - Jack had me donate his $200 to CodeYourFuture - Phil had me donate his $200 to Education Opportunity Fun

"I'm currently trying to learn design" Bro you've made a better homepage than the majority of fortune 500 companies 💀

Thanks for the recognition Theo! 😅

8MB for a landing page, impressive.

My head exploded when I heard Theo pronounce ASCII as assy.

What the hell???? That guy who redesigned the whole page definitely deserve the win.

"just 5 megabytes animation" seriously? it's quite a lot for this animation

The "animations only 4 megs". lol

Well tbh most of them have nice "graphic design" but from a customers perspective (as a developer) none of these designs explains to me what uploadthing does differently in comparison to s3 and why I should give them my money. Imho the hero graphic should explain to me without having to scroll once what the service does differently. I would've taken part but missed the announcement :( maybe next time. Good job to all tho

The rive animation takes between 4-8 seconds (uncached) to show up for me on ~50Mbs down in Europe. For something that's meant to catch the user's attention, that's way too long IMO. It doesn't seem to be automatically cached either, so any subsequent page reloads have the same problem

Wish I would have seen this, although I probably wouldn’t have had the time to have participated. I admire the positivity and encouragement shown to the participants here, but speaking as a professional designer and developer of ~20 years, with the exception of a handful of submissions, most of these were frankly very subpar (just being real). I’m glad that the Tom finalist submitted his entry, because he did a pretty good job and a total redesign was sorely needed, and not really much of a lift in terms of complexity and effort required. Personally, I wouldn’t have let one of my hero designs get swallowed up by the rest of that previous website either—I wouldn’t have even started this without approaching it from the level of strategy and communication, first and foremost. Good design is not done piecemeal, like clip art— it comes from a cohesive strategy, unifying seed concept, and a clearly articulated and specific vision, centered around a deeply empathetic understanding of your audience/users.

I love how theo didn't want mouse cursors but the end result (see the website) contains three

Adding a live upload right on the home page and showing the preview of the file right there would make this even better.

Already my 5th time or so coming back to this vid. Just want to say that I'm learning so much from this 1 video Theo, and the positive interactions you're having with everyone is making me feel much more excited to get into this field. So thank you for showing off all these great creators and their unique takes! Maybe one day I'll make it onto a list like this :)

Give a professional graphics and web designer to design a webpage❌ Host a competition to design a webpage✅

I genuinely cannot fathom having 1/10th of the skill on display here. Maye you 20+ year design veterans think this was subpar. But I don't think I'll ever have this level of design skill.

Wow that curved section delineation....I'm using that 🤣

this feels like one of the best vids on this channel so good!

Very talented works guys! The last ones especially left me in awe

Man, you really know how to fire people 😂