As social media continues to integrate into people’s everyday lives, some sites provide a space for people to present their work and connect with others. This study seeks to understand how Dribbble.com (hereafter, Dribbble), a site created in 2009 for visual designers to showcase their work, plays a role in the transformation of the visual design industry. We use practice theory perspectives to interpret 30 semistructured interviews with active Dribbble users. We find that the niche site Dribbble, along with the constellation of sites around it, is changing professional design practices, in both positive and negative ways. In this study, the focus looks at the ways the work of design professionals unfolds. Our participants, professional designers on Dribbble report that the site changes how they find inspiration to solve design problems, give and receive design feedback from/for other designers, and look for jobs. Our work suggests that by being a primary source of inspiration for many designers, Dribbble may be influencing trends in the wider industry. In addition, Dribbble may be nudging the design industry into a more global stance with respect to hiring designers. Our work contributes to social media studies by showing a link between a design site such as Dribbble and changing practices in the design industry. It also contributes to the literature by looking beyond Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit into practices on smaller social media sites.

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Dribbble 和不断发展的设计行业的实践理论视角

随着社交媒体不断融入人们的日常生活，一些网站为人们提供了展示作品和与他人联系的空间。本研究旨在了解 Dribbble.com（以下简称 Dribbble）（一个于 2009 年创建的网站，供视觉设计师展示其作品）如何在视觉设计行业的转型中发挥作用。我们使用实践理论视角来解读对 Dribbble 活跃用户的 30 次半结构化访谈。我们发现，小众网站 Dribbble 及其周围的一系列网站正在以积极和消极的方式改变专业设计实践。在这项研究中，重点关注设计专业人员的工作展开方式。我们的参与者、Dribbble 上的专业设计师报告说，该网站改变了他们寻找灵感来解决设计问题、为其他设计师提供和接收设计反馈以及寻找工作的方式。我们的研究表明，Dribbble 作为许多设计师的主要灵感来源，可能正在影响更广泛行业的趋势。此外，Dribbble 可能会推动设计行业在招聘设计师方面采取更加全球化的立场。我们的工作通过展示 Dribbble 等设计网站与设计行业不断变化的实践之间的联系，为社交媒体研究做出了贡献。它还通过超越 Twitter、Facebook 和 Reddit 进入小型社交媒体网站的实践，为文献做出了贡献。