Clients from HELL!!!
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- bolus0
"Instead of edits or comments, I’ve just drawn sad faces in places where I don’t like the copy."
haha
to be fair though, I've also met a few designers who were pretty shit.... Not too long ago I had to explain to someone that in the age of broadband internet no one was waiting for poor quality pictures on an architecture site. He refused to acknowledge that pixelated photography made the site look amateurish to say the least.... He also had a fucked up sense of colour.....
- felizfeliz0
"Whiteboard
After presenting a new design for a company website, the owner leaned over, asked if she could suggest some changes to the layout, got out a black marker and started drawing the changes on my MacBook’s screen. I was stunned."
staggering
- should have jsut scrolled and lolled...Stugoo
- I think I would have had an aneurysm.shitehawke
- HAHAHA!!Projectile
- I take it after the incident, you proceeded to take the black marker and stab her in the eye with it?zombee
- Wow.Complexfruit
- :Otheredmasque
- i believe she was found dead later on.. dumped in a deserted warehouse with a keyboard up her throat..janne76
- Was it a permanent marker?villars
- vitamins0
Client: “You’ll never make any money if you’re always charging for every little thing that you do!”
- chrisRG0
HAHAHA!
"Can you re-upload the photos on my site? I think they are fading from so many people clicking on them."
- shitehawke0
I was working on a project which mutated from a flash-based presentation to a huge rambling application with massive amounts of content, images, video, text and audio. It was a nightmare.
We presented it to the clients who had called all the managers in for a preview and feedback. After showing how it worked, they changed their mind again as to what they wanted but the best bit of feedback was from the CEO who said 'I saw a video from a competitor with music on it over the video, it was great. Can we do that with 'simply the best' or that abba song 'winner takes it all'?'
I believe I cried that night.
- invisiblechamber0
»The unicorns don’t look realistic enough.«
- vaxorcist0
I once had a client's assistant call up and say something like "We need you to remove that FPO text on top of all the photos because it has to go to press in 15 minutes"
- Thesocialgospel0
I just got this email:
"Oh, Dan, something happy and upbeat! This is rather “severe.” To be honest, it looks like a camp for black people! Can you come up with something else?"
- can we see the comp that sparked this response?version3
- camp for black people?CALLES
- haha just photoshop a white face or 2 on. Like that windows ad.LOLProjectile
- isakosmo0
i've just been making a free site for a photographer friend. a flash site with 100 of his photos, simple but time consuming.
a couple of days ago he comes back going, 'can you add under construction' at the top? then you and my other designer friend can sit together and design a proper site and get it up live in may'
i kid you not.
- Zenith_Kudos0
All of them.
- iheartfun0
Client: “Make the numbers in our phone number capitalized to stand out more”
Me: “That’s not possible...”
Client: “Just hold the SHIFT key and type our phone number!”
- must_dash0
Client: “We ran the ad you designed in a magazine and no one bought our product, so we would like a refund on what we paid you and we will be taking our business elsewhere.”
Us: “Maybe the ad didn’t work because you are selling hunting and fishing supplies and you put the ad in a women’s home magazine.”
Client: “That’s because we heard that women make most purchasing decisions in the home. So clearly the problem was with your ad. I’ll be expecting a check.”
- MrT0
Just had a Christmas card request.
"You should be able to do something quick, just put the XXX logo and all the product logos on the front and since we're a software company, make it interactive. We would like to mail them on Tuesday next week."
- I can fulfill this request.
collaborate? subcontract?version3 - OK do the design and get it printed and I'll give you proceeds of any profits it might generate?MrT
- Interactive, eh?ETM
- glowy rolloversscarabin
- They want a card, you know, made of card, to put a stamp on and mail. Interactive? 3 working days? Yeah baby.MrT
- I can fulfill this request.
- doctor0
We need to stop showing clients Lorem ipsum text. Far too many of them can't abstract properly from it.
- are you crazy? then they'll strt picking at what's in there!! "we don't deal with tigers, what IS this!!"Projectile
- "Why is this in french? Can we see the English version?"
re: lorem ipsummonNom - hahahaProjectile
- pizzafire0
haha ... this one's a Client from "Heaven"
http://clientsfromhell.net/post/…Client: ”Obviously we need the site to be deeply spiritual. The use of a cross is obvious and although perhaps over-used we would like to go with that... Also perhaps some Saints, figurines... You get the idea?”
Designer: ”Do you have any specific Saint’s in mind?”
Client: ”No, just run with it... after all we all worship the same god right?”
Designer: ”Actually no, I am atheist. Is this a problem?”
Client: ”Oh, erm, you´re one of THEM are you? Hmm that is a problem... people who abandon the word of god are in league with the Devil, and if you designed our site... well, it would make it sinful, a place of deception... No... erm, maybe you would like to discuss your hatred of God? Then perhaps I could convince you of the true path.”
Designer: ”I cannot hate something which does not exist.”
Client: ”I see. No, we need a designer who is...you know, not in league with the devil.”
- meffid0
Not the worst one I've had:
- akrokdesign0
haha.. :-)