Educating idiot clients
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- omg0
If they're not listening to you, then you're in the wrong place. Ditch these clients ASAP.
- bad advice.bklyndroobeki
- because you offer any better solutions to advice used by other top CEOs in their industriesomg
- oh wait you blame the designer... that's even better advice...omg
- Amicus0
Sounds like Projectile is working with a bunch of people who are hardwired to think logically and analytically. If the target audience is the same a detailed diagram will actually work better for them.
- omahadesigns0
Do textbooks have white space? Not really.
Pic your battles.
- omg-1
If your clients can't put their support behind their designers over small things like whitespace then you're going to fail. When the design looks bad, you will be used an escape goat for top brass to blame, and they will hire another designer in your place.
- cannonball19781
I'm sorry, but I don't truck with the "It's always the designer's fault."
People are sometimes just fucking shitbag morons and at the end of the day it shouldn't be the designer's job to also be a prosthetic brain.
- ProstheticHandle-4
I'm neck-deep dealing with these kinds of clients right now. I usually try to *prove* to clients that people prefer the cleaner design.
If the clients have lots of time and money, I'll have them throw up a Google Customer Survey (http://surveys.google.com).
Most of the time they have neither, so I'll personally run a quick preference test on PickFu (http://www.pickfu.com). Takes 15 mintues and is super cheap.
99% of the time people overwhelmingly prefer the clean design, and 60% of the time my clients give in.