Graphics Category Weekly Report - Week 3, 2019
This is weekly report of the Graphics category. It contains insight of the category's activity over the last week, 01/10/2019 to 01/16/2019.
Previous week reports:
Week 2, 2019
Week 1, 2018
Week 52, 2018
Summary:
- 2 Contributions were submitted and all of them have already been rewarded
- The average score was 56.5
- Contributions were submitted by 2 unique designers
- There is no Contribution choosen as staff pick
Insight:
| Contributor | Tittle | Score |
|---|---|---|
| @mansyaprime | New Logo for FilePreloaderLibrary | 56 |
| @richardbmx | Logo design for Z-GAMES | 57 |
Again, we see declining in number of total contributions in Graphic Category, With only 2 submitted, this is the lowest as I could remember as a moderator of Utopian. However the quality of recent contributions are increased compared to contributions submitted back then when this category receive dozens of contributions in a week. Despite, we hope to see contributors to contribute as much as back then with today's quality in the coming weeks
2 contributions were submitted by 2 unique contributors. @mansyaprime submitted a contribution to a project called FilePreloaderLibrary which is an Android based open source project. with function to preload entire folders the user might access, so that they load instantly. Utopian Moderator gave some thought on the color of the logo design.
Meanwhile, another contribution was submitted by @richardbmx, it was a logo design for Z-GAMES, a tiny board games portal. Project Owner already used the logo in the project's repository. the logo itself was very well made, with a note from Utopian Moderator about the uniqueness of the logo.
@richardbmx got the highest score which is 57.00, while @mansyaprime got slightly bellow with 56.00. The average score went down to 56.66 from previous week's 63.66.
@richardbmx's work
Moderators Activity
All contributions in week 3, 2019, were moderated by me as Utopian Moderator. I am myself was quite excited about last week as moderators start reviewing contribution with new questionnaire, the new set of questionnaire really help moderators to determine the score properly and precisely.
Tips On How To Choose The Perfect Color For Your Design
Last week @mansyaprime did really well with his logo design, but the color is a bit off and kinda hard on eyes.
Choosing the right color for your design sometimes could get a little bit frustrating, to help you, you need to know at least the meaning of each colors such as red means energetic, orange means innovative, blue means professional and more suitable for corporate and tech related industry, etc. this is of course not mandatory but knowing the meaning of the color might help you.
[illustration] source
Another thing is combining the color. color is fun you can combine one color to another as you like, but keep in mind that there are some color that are not meant to be put together, as it could go really hard on eyes and unpleasingly to see. some of those color pairs are green on red, red on black, orange on blue, blue on red, etc
to help you choose the perfect color scheme for your design you can use free tools from the internet, one of the best tool i know is Adobe Kuler, you can use color wheel in the website to mix and match the color or you can simply explore thousands of color scheme that already made by other users.
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Thank you for providing the weekly overview for the Graphics category. It's quite disappointing that the influx of contributions continues to go down in the category. Maybe we need more visibility to reach more graphics guys.
Nevertheless, I am impressed with the quality of the submitted works. Also, I appreciate that you added the tips as I proposed in the last weekly. The tips are cool and really useful.
We decide #iamutopian posts differently from normal blog contributions. However, typos and grammar are not cool for a good publication. So, I'd suggest you use some grammar help services to eradicate issues in your future reports.
Thank you and have a great week!
Please note that while the CM hasn't changed the footer, I am not scoring #iamutopian posts based on the questionnaire. They have their own metric, and that will be the case until we go live with the new guidelines and new questionnaire, which will be comprehensive enough to reflect these types of posts.
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Thanks for the suggestion @tykee, I agree that this category need more visibility to reach designers outside steemit/utopian. And thanks for the suggestion, I will install grammarly right away ;)
@nilfanif @tykee great greetings to all within the UTOPIAN community, I would like to thank for the support of my contributions, however I would like to talk a little about my perspective regarding the drop in contributions.
I have little more than a year in utopia making contributions in graphics, thanks to that I had the opportunity to meet and talk with other designers who are dedicated to this, and in the end we all think the same. It would be important that you, as members of utopian, ask and deepen why the contributions of the graphs have dropped to such a level. I personally have some hypothesis about it.
You have to be clear that the majority of people who participate in utopian are for the economic benefit that this presents, however there are others that we are just for the simple fact of increasing our portfolio of designs and letting us know. some of the designers with whom I have talked have told me that they did not publish more in utopian because of the fact that they have seen contributions with some errors that have received higher scores with respect to better elaborated contributions, this discourages many. On one occasion this was converted into discord chat and the response from utopian was intransigent and inflexible, at that time two great designers reused the contributions.
the level of demand for contributions is very good, however, things are taken into account that in my opinion do not make much sense. If I make a contribution to a project that is in development and does not have many stars then I receive less points, this because? In my opinion, the best contribution that can be made is to those small projects that are starting and do not have a full team of work and depend in many cases on those contributions that we make, in many cases I have got great projects without a logo that when offers the contribution deny it because within their team there is a contracted designer, because this makes contributions to large projects is increasingly difficult, this is another negative point that has removed many utopian designers.
to me personally I have rejected contributions because they are projects that are starting this is something meaningless, because in some way I am contributing to the development of open source.
Another important point is that the design tasks are very scarce if I remember the last one was done last week, a task for 20 designers (to give an example) and if the owner of the project selects the worst design that is the who receives the utopian vote. I think this does not encourage anyone, it is better to explore github and get projects that do not have a logo so you do not waste your time (which is very valuable) making the design and ultimately not receiving the utopian vote.
I think they should explore the past a bit and see the conditions that were in that moment where they made 20 or even more graphic contributions and determine new conditions for that volume to be repeated, since that helps the utopian project grow as well as helps contributors to grow inside steemit. with this I do not want to create a discord I simply want to give my constructive criticism and give my perspective from the designer's vision towards you.
A big hug to everyone and I hope to continue reading in the future.
PD: I apologize for my bad English I'm from Venezuela and it costs me a little English ;-)
Thanks for the feedback @richardbmx, yes we saw a lot of contributors went away because the price of steem keep going down (and thanks god it's rising at this momment😊)
I admit that the questionnaire is not perfect, but hey, utopian just released a new set of questionnaire and we hope it well help to score the contribution properly.
Also, we really appreciate people like you who stick in to this platform and keep improving yoir portofolio :)
Thank you for your review, @tykee! Keep up the good work!
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I couldn't post any contribution past week but I will be back this week. I'll try to post a contribution every week.
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