site crit please!
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- luo
hey all-im designing this site for the UCC law society-the client is being fairly awkward with everything-keeping changing his mind...adding new pages which werent agreed. on section now has 12 sub-pages! and it was only supposed to be a small project. Let me know what you think anyways-any feedback welcomed!
p.s. i know the jpg ive posted is kinda bitty but its low quality-sorry! also keep in mind im still a student! ;-)
- stewart0
you're joking, right?
- Terminal270
Hello Luo,
Looks quite different, however I think it needs some sort of border or something to anchor it to the page. The blue key lines don't really work for me either. I'd try to put the whole thing inside a box, with very rounded edges, and a lighter grey colour.... just to help pin it. The left hand nav could do with some line spacing and maybe bigger text.
Don't let them push you around... good luck:)
- stewart0
Those things over there, they're not paintdrips, are they?
- skt0
What has the design got to do with law society? Is it an 'urban' law society? If so, its a bit shit. If not, its a lot shit.
Needs more law. Or something.
- luo0
thanks terminal-its just a very very rough mock up. the client seems to love really naff design-so im finding it hard to come up with a decent design. example of d crap he likes...he thought it would be a brillant idea to have the title text rotating and "ghosting" into photographs of the white house...! how are you supposed to tell clients their thoughts are crap?!
- stewart0
"how are you supposed to tell clients their thoughts are crap?!"
easy. illustrate it with your better designs and fresh arguments.
- luo0
have tried that, and he keeps coming up with all these "great" ideas for the design. will get working on more mock ups tonight and see how it goes. wats worse is that our correspondence is through email only because he's away for the summer.
- Terminal270
Yeah .. its hard when the client thinks that they can design or 'knows what they want'.... over the last couple of years I've become quite good at getting info out of clients about what they really want.. and not what they think they want... Also clients needs to be managed, and pursuaded not to go down certain routes... I takes a while to get good at it.. because sometimes their ideas are valid, other times you wanna laugh.. but instead you have to tactfully avoid the idea and move on..
- clerk0
yeah and don't forget sugar-coat your arguments in "designer bullshit", pick some fancy words that help your arguments, clients usually love that.
- MX_OnD0
you might need to try and put it so that they don't think you're saying their ideas are shit (nobody likes to hear that...) but say something like "It's just a bit dated, contemporary thinking is more along the lines of..." and then show your idea.
or go with something like "the problems that face you with going in this direction are..... BUT by doing..... we can overcome them"
good luck either way.
I'm not liking it as it is at all.
- luo0
thanks for the advice...i just sent the client a lovely email telling him his ideas are shite (in a nice way of course!) talking all about usuability and all that-fingers crossed he'll take on board what im saying. gonna start on some decent designs tonight-and try convince him they're better!
- Crouwel0
no paintdrips on a lawfirm site, puhlease??