{"id":64772,"date":"2018-08-30T17:10:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T00:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/?p=64772"},"modified":"2018-09-09T22:23:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T05:23:09","slug":"design-challenges-and-spec-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/blog\/ponoko\/design-challenges-and-spec-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Challenges (And Spec Work)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ponoko<\/h2>\n

A Preview Of The Design Challenges We\u2019d Love To Host For You<\/h2>\n

We\u2019ve run a few design challenges in our time. They\u2019ve been fun for all. Lucrative for some. But they were lacking something. We think we\u2019ve built a better mousetrap.<\/p>\n

What We Want To Do<\/h3>\n

Run an ongoing series of design challenges.<\/p>\n

Why We Want To Do It<\/h3>\n

To educate designers and engineers about how to create successful designs. While our website has tons of example designs, case studies and how-to info, merely reading our content is not as effective as actually creating a design and receiving feedback about it.<\/p>\n

The Elephant In Da Room (Spec Work)<\/h3>\n

Being a bunch of creatives who serve other creatives (like you), we\u2019re frustrated by the spec work thing, too.<\/p>\n

So after consulting our customers, the No!Spec<\/a> and AIGA<\/a> websites, we\u2019ve modeled our design challenges on how our friends at Instructables<\/a> do it.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what we love about Instructables contests (and what we plan to do, too):<\/p>\n