Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been running a competition for interface designs on a big project we have in development. After wading through the assembled resumes of various designers, we settled on three participants and got the following results:

Participant A - “Starbeer”
Submitted a solid piece of work on time and asked plenty of intelligent questions along the way. A very professional job.

Participant B - “The Designer”
Our ex-in-house designer…submitted an embarrassingly poor attempt that was the laziest possible way to collect the fee available. I’m tempted to post screen shots of this submission, just because it was so appallingly ill-conceived and terrible to behold. It appears to have been put together in about an hour and a half by a disinterested teenager.

Participant C - “MIA”
Attended the interview. Was very gung-ho. Attended the kickoff meeting. Was excited. Disappeared into an abyss, submitted nothing and has ignored phone calls and emails asking where the hell he went off to.