ManyPixels Design Quality Assurance: A Look at How We Work

If it’s so affordable and fast, it can’t be good? This is a common misconception about all unlimited design. While we can’t speak for everyone, here’s how ManyPixels, a top-rated unlimited design service ensures high-quality and original designs every time. 

TL;DR

Quality assurance is an important part of professional design. It’s a way to ensure designs are user-friendly, consistent, and resonate with the right people. As a busy on-demand design company, the project managers at ManyPixels have developed a foolproof QA system to ensure an efficient and smooth design process.

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There’s no shortage of design marketplaces nowadays, filled with great templates you can get for little money or often even free.

And yet, nothing beats custom design. Not only can it help your brand stand out from the crowd, but it can also influence your audience positively. Design should complement the ideas and experiences you’re trying to project as a brand. Your brand is unique, so it would only make sense for the design to be just that, as well. 

What is quality assurance (QA)?

Quality assurance (QA) in design is the process of making sure that a design—whether it’s for a product, service, user interface, user experience or visual material—meets established standards of usability, consistency, and effectiveness before it is delivered or implemented.

Although it’s most commonly talked about in the design, development and testing of digital products, the truth is that quality assurance review always makes the design process faster and therefore more cost-effective.

In simple terms, it’s about checking the design to ensure it does what it’s supposed to do, looks the way it should, and provides a good experience for the end user.

Some key aspects include:

• Consistency: Ensuring typography, colors, icons, and layouts follow brand guidelines and design systems.
• Usability: Testing whether users can easily navigate, understand, and interact with the design.
• Accuracy: Making sure content, measurements, and specifications are correct (e.g., print dimensions, responsive design breakpoints).
• Functionality alignment: Verifying that the design supports the intended business goals and technical requirements.
• Error prevention: Catching issues early (like accessibility problems, poor color contrast, or missing assets) before development or production.

When working with freelancers you’ll need to handle the design review process yourself.

However, if you opt for a top unlimited design service like ManyPixels, you’ll have a professional project manager oversee this for you.

In the next section we offer an exclusive sneak peek into our design QA process. 

Why is design quality assurance important?

You might be thinking that QA review is merely a matter of common sense. However, the importance of a good design quality assurance review is anything but skin-deep. 

Here are some important reasons why you need it.

Efficiency and cost savings

Catching errors early in the design process prevents delays and expensive rework later. QA is a proactive investment in smoother workflows.

If you’re working with freelancers, there’s a good chance that any extra revisions will cost you extra. So, eliminating the need for these can have a direct impact on your budget. 

Alignment with strategy and goals

QA ensures that every design communicates the intended message and meets the objectives of the campaign (e.g., increasing engagement, driving sales, improving usability).

This is especially important with product design and development processes, as QA helps to identify and prevent errors, which in turn makes products more user-friendly and marketable. 

Client and stakeholder confidence

High standards of QA show professionalism, helping teams deliver reliable results and build stronger relationships with clients or internal stakeholders.

Project and product managers are the bridge between clients and design and development teams. They are there to translate client demands into actionable tasks, and technical lingo into everyday terms clients will understand and appreciate. 

How ManyPixels ensures design quality

Time for a quick introduction!

We’re ManyPixels, a top-rated design subscription service. 

With our plans and design packages, you can submit as many design requests as you like. No matter how many revisions you ask for, the price stays the same.

We have the high-grade delivery of an agency and the flexibility of an in-house design team. All while costing less than hiring a freelancer! That means you can focus on your high-value projects while our team takes care of your design needs.

Still, although you’re free to request as many revisions as possible, every good designer knows that fewer revisions = a better, more cost-effective design process.

So, here are a few ways our project managers ensure clients get high-quality designs in as little time as possible. 

Our designers

ManyPixels employs designers from all over the world, but only the top 2% of applicants for our job positions. 

We look at years of experience, design expertise, graphic design software proficiency, and style when taking graphic designers on board. Our service has a communication-focused approach, and so we assess candidates’ general soft skills during the initial interview. 

After a successful interview, we give candidates a set of design challenges to deliver within a specific time frame (24-48hrs). This paid test includes logo design, illustration, gif design, website redesign, and e-book design. 

Additionally, candidates are required to provide a short video explaining their design decisions and inspiration. This is an extra mechanism to gauge how well they can relay their ideas and communicate with our clients. 

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Our design process

First, we assess your project requirements to find you a match made in designer heaven. After pairing you with a suitable and skilled graphic designer, the entire communication will go through our simple platform. This is where you can request any design you need.

We have the best people to design your:

• Corporate visual design identity
• Graphic content and high-quality images
• Landing pages and websites
• Illustrations
• Logos 
• Social media graphics 
• Mobile app icons
• Marketing collaterals, and much, much more.

Our custom platform isn’t solely for putting in those requests. It’s also where you track the progress of the design process and collaborate with your designer. Lastly, our platform is where you receive the final product in just 1 - 2 working days.

Our platform enables you to: 

• Submit and manage requests
• Create multiple brand profiles
• Communicate with your designer
• Leave feedback directly on the graphics
• Invite your team and collaborate
• Keep all your designs in one place, including source fiels

Our quality assurance process 

Hiring skilled designers is only half of the job done. Revisions are a necessary part of the design process, and we’ve set up our platform to make giving feedback as simple as possible.

However, in an attempt to make the whole process even faster, we also have a team of skilled project managers - senior designers that check every piece of design before it’s delivered to clients for review. 

Here are 3 types of criteria that are considered in our design quality assurance review.

• Compliance with the design brief (branding guidelines, color schemes, application of logo, fonts  and any other attachment that the client provided)
• Acceptance criteria (grammatical accuracy, spacing, appropriate font sizes, no typos, etc.)
• Performance criteria (meeting deadlines, respecting client-provided references, folder structure, file naming, etc.)

Project managers are also responsible for assigning projects, so they make sure each project, be it a social media post, or website design is assigned to the person with the best skills and style. 

As senior designers, they can also act as your design consultants and provide guidance and advice in case the design project isn’t moving forward, or you feel it needs an entire overhaul. 

What our clients think about us

With over 45,000 requests completed for more than 3,000 happy customers, ManyPixels has become the go-to service for graphic design. But don't just take our word for it: 

"ManyPixels is a great service, especially if you are a start-up in need of graphic design help. Even if your need fluctuates, the price stays the same, so you know what to expect every month. This saves you the responsibility of hiring a full-time graphic designer." - Stefan Schulz.

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Wrapping up

Design quality assurance review isn’t just a nice perk of professional design services - it’s an important prerequisite for an effective design process.

When you hire freelance designers not only do you have to take on quality assurance yourself, you also have to go through the same process of vetting and hiring designers over and over again.

On top of that, hiring freelance designers typically costs more than a design subscription in the long term. With ManyPixels you can pay as low as $599 a month, for unlimited requests, revisions, and a design quality assurance system you can depend on.

Whether you’re a one-man show, or an agency with an entire design team, we can help. Get your daily graphics, hassle-free, delivered 100% to your liking.

Have any questions? We’d love to chat!