Advanced Dribbbling

Techniques
Designers are a visual breed.
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Portfolios are their pride and
joy. An array of their finished
work will provide a clear idea
of a designer’s talents, and
allow recruiters to get a great
feel for whether the designer
is the type of person they’d
want to pursue.
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While it’s important to make
sure they have knowledge of
the relevant skills, looking at
their resumes and LinkedIn
profiles isn’t enough.

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Enter Dribbble!

Dribbble is one of the most popular places

on the web for designers to showcase their
work. Despite the exclusive nature of their
invite-only signup process, the design board
has swelled to over 460,000 users.
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These users are posting screenshots of their
process and finished work, as well as
commenting on the work of their designer
compatriots.
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While you must be invited by a user to post
work, it is free to register in order to follow
users and like their contributions.

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Vocab

Shots: ! Projects: Buckets: Likes: ! Tags: !

Screenshots Organized Organized The user’s favorite Searchable terms
uploaded by collections of the collections of shots work posted by associated with
user user’s shots across all of other users shots
Dribbble

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Hire Me!
Dribbble is unique from other
professional niche sites in that
users will designate themselves
as open to new opportunities,
whether in a freelance or full time
capacity.
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Sifting through profile tabs can
give you a great sense of the
designer’s work, interests, and
other members similar to them.
Not all designers will add shots
to Dribbble; however, you can
still get a good understanding of
their design sense through the
shots they like and any buckets
they’ve put together. This manual
curation of designs can be very
helpful in determining if that
particular designer fits with your
needs.

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Assessing Users
Following!
If you find a user you really like, checking
out who they follow is a great way to
discover other talented designers. This
also may give some sense into the type of
work they’re interested in.

Followers
Generally speaking, users with more
followers are more respected within the
community. Consider this a positive filter; if
someone has a lot of followers, they’re
truly talented, but don’t hold it against a
candidate if they don’t have a huge
following.

Listed!
Read through the lists a candidate is a
part of and you’ll find similar
candidates. You’ll also get a better
sense of what others think of that
particular designer (i.e. They’ve been
added to the Logo Designers list)

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Finding Designers
Click the ‘Designers’ Tab in the top
navigation, and you’ll be taken to a
page with robust profiles and a
powerful search tool. It’s going to
cost you to utilize the full search
functionality, but if you’re trying to
build a team, it’s worth the price.
Sifting through profile tabs can give
you a great sense of the designer’s
work, interests, and other members
similar to them.
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X-Ray Search
If you want to post a job, there’s no way around paying.
But if it’s just some quality sourcing you’re after, we have
ways of finding you candidates.
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X-Ray searching allows you to browse every page
Google has indexed based on parameters you define.
You can do this for any site you might want to source,
but for each one, the search string will need to be built a
bit differently. All you have to to is construct a search
string based on the details of your ideal candidate, and
enter the string into Google.
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On the next page, we’ll unpack an example search
string and give you some terms to fill it with to test out
on your own.

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X-Ray Search

“site: URL list skills “Unique page identifier””

Site: This stays the same wherever you X-Ray
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URL: Here, put the URL of whichever site you’re sourcing
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List Skills: Add relevant skills here, separated by spaces
or standard Boolean (AND, OR)
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“Unique Page Identifier”: In quotes, add something about
the profile you’re looking for, like location or current
company

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X-Ray Search
Check out the search results for the
search string to the right. Notice it
includes “Hire Me”, so will only yield
candidates who are open to a new
job. Also, you can add your location
to your search so you don’t have to
deal with pesky relocation fees.
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You can sub out “HTML CSS” for
any skills you need in your new
designer. Here’s a list of the most
popular skills on Dribbble:

• web design • ui
• ui design • css3
• logo design • wordpress
• html5 • php
• javascript • jquery
• illustrator • photoshop

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Post A Job

In addition to being a great means to

assess talent, Dribbble also acts as a
job board. Click the “Jobs” tab in top
navigation, and you’ll see that $350
gets you a month-long job post, plus
access to the search tool.

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Conclusion
Designers spend much of their time
outside of resume databases and
Linkedin, and it’s critical for recruiters to
understand how to use these platforms as
that will give you an extra edge to court
the very best design talent. Use Dribbble
to build a great understanding of design
and help your organization adopt sound
design principles. As with all of the other
data sources we’ve covered, don’t use
one source in a vacuum; leverage
Dribbble along with resumes and other
sources to get a deeper understanding of
candidates.

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