Web designer tortured by customers

Only this document to those who are dedicated to the Web page designers, believe that many people have experienced or encountered the article in this difficult customer! Perhaps this experience is the greatest torment for a designer ....

Give this to a designer who has taken over a living, or a designer who has had a similar experience. Amen.

At first, everything was great. Customers ask for their needs, and you are full of expectations. Full of passion and excitement.

Customer: The new website will be great.

Designer: Not only is it great? It's going to be incredibly awesome. It will be like traveling in outer space of the eagle is generally inconceivable.

Customers to show you their current site, and you laugh at it so bad.

Customer: Haha, what a rotten thing! The designer we invited last time was an idiot.

Designer: Yes! How could this be done?! It's a crime against all of humanity.

So, you redesigned the site. The new site looks beautiful and is also very good to use. This is simply the best example of a perfect design.

Designer: thump-thump! See!

Customer: I like it! It looks great! I want to have sex with him! But......

We need to make some "small" adjustments.

Customer (think): This design is perfect, but as CEO, I have the responsibility to make some corrections to feel that their work is done in place. At the same time, I have to use the term "user experience" and "transformational orientation" to make myself smarter, even though I hardly ever use a computer.

Customer: Can you design a bit more "jump"? It needs to be more "clear-cut". It looks like it's not right.

(Author note: The customer did say that to me.) To this day, I still don't quite understand what it means to "jump" and "clear" in web design. I don't know how to design a Web page with other people's feelings.

The so-called small adjustment starts to become more, soon becomes not so small.

Customer: I thought for a moment and decided to turn the font back to comic Sans. Besides, can you get a lens flare effect? They look very Web2.0. In addition, this site must not be too "line". When I look at this site, all I see is a line. Can you handle this?

(Author note: A client did say that to me.) There is absolutely no such thing as a horizontal ruler or a line in this design. In fact, he's talking about <div> <p>. Rectangular area generated by code

The client let someone else in.

"It looks good, but I want to hear more, friends, co-workers, uncles, even my pet hamster."

Client: I asked my mother to join the discussion. She designed a bread promotion leaflet in 1982, so you can say she also has a design vision.

Client mother: The design you're in is going to need a little light, it looks too dark. How about a little pink? And put on a kitten. Everyone loves kittens.

(Author Note: I did meet a client who asked his mother to be involved in the design process so that she could make comments and suggestions)

All hope has been dashed.

You start to fantasize about other careers, like digging ditches to survive or scrubbing old people.

Customer: OK. Now, my dog miffles is a key figure. It can be said to be the most important part of my life. I want you to add a dog's "stream of consciousness" so that it looks like a miffles talking to a visiting user. I'll give you a few pages of what Miffles might say, like "I Love Food" and "Hey!" Welcome to visit my website, I am a puppy, you can shake hands with me ^ ^ "

(Author note: That's not what I made up.) A client has asked for it. I've never wanted to use a car battery to knock one's head off like that.

You are no longer a web designer.

You are now a mouse in a drawing program, and your client can control you directly through voice, email, or chat software.

(Author Note: Once I met a client who took my design manuscript, I modified it directly on Photoshop and then sent it back to me after I thought it was the effect they wanted.) After I received his 13th revision, I fired him. ）

This is the birth of resentment.

Customers completely forget that they are hiring you, web designers, to help them design a good product. Imagine if you were an engineer designing a commercial jet turbine, would they dare to get involved?

Customer: Now this design is finally called "Jump" out!

Designer: Spare me ...