99Designs

We at Applied Method believe in well designed, intuitive and aesthetically pleasing user interfaces, its important to the brand of the product, usability and user adoption. In order to find that killer user interface design particularly in the web world you need options to present to users, that’s exactly what this service allows you to do.
 
The concept is that you are creating a competition for graphic desingers to enter, you define a design brief, launch your competition then review designs that you receive. When the competition closes you award a winner and they get the prize money. During the process of reviewing the designs you can work with each designer directly to tweak each design until you get what you need.
 
I used this service to design a user interface for the following application:-

Winning Design

In total I received 33 entries for $500, here are some of the designs that didnt make it:-

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