Cheetah Mobile holds annual CM Global Designer Meetup

Cheetah Mobile Inc. (NYSE: CMCM), a mobile internet company, recently held its 2018 CM Global Designer Meetup at the Cheetah Mobile headquarters in Beijing. The ceremony was held to honor the designers of CM Design. The CM design is an open platform which empowers third-party designers to create downloadable themes for CM Launcher and Cheetah Keyboard. Nearly 100 designers from 10 countries including India attended the event.

CM Design was estabilished back in 2015 and provides open platform for some of the world's upcoming graphic designers. Through this platform, Cheetah Mobile is helping a growing community of talented individuals and teams from around the world, who are capable of responding to the latest trends and bringing users the themes they want.

CM Design provides freelance designers an easy-to-use platform to earn money, their crowd-sourcing model also benefits users, as they are given access to a collection of various themes to personalize their mobile experience."

Nearly 3,000 designers and 100 design studios from over 50 countries are currently active on the CM Design platform. They designed more than 20,000 themes for CM Launcher and Cheetah Keyboard in 2017, with total downloads exceeding 200 million.

According to a survey by PayPal, India has about 10 million people who are engaged in freelance works. This majorly includes web and mobile, developers. The survey also revealed that 61% of them have not been paid at least once in their career.

An individual designer could earn up to $15,000 a month by designing themes for CM Design. Whereas, the designer studios could earn up to $60,000 per month.

The Top Ten individual designers and design teams of 2017 were announced at the event. The top designers were judged based on the number of themes they created during the year, the quality of their themes, and the number of times their themes were downloaded by users.

CM Launcher

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It is a personalization app for Android, CM Launcher offers thousands of 3D themes, wallpapers and other customization options. Covering more than 200 countries and regions, .

Cheetah Keyboard

Cheetah Keyboard is a third-party input app which incorporates learning technology, with features such as smart prediction, automatic correction and user modeling. Cheetah Keyboard integrates NLP technology and machine learning algorithms in order to provide accurate results.

If you are interested in joining CM Design you can visitlauncher.cmcm.com