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- xpedious
How come some clients want the most ugly websites. Are they blind?
- enobrev0
from my experience they look at competitor sites and feel they understand what parts of them are what make them money.
Especially with pc magazine, etc reviews out there explaining their opinions on what makes a site work to the common consumer.
for instance 4 years ago every small client i spoke to wanted amazon's tab bar. It didn't matter how useful it was in their implementation, the magazines talked about the tab bar and amazon was huge so everyone wanted it.
Matter of fact one of my clients' sites still has the tab bar for that exact reason. Why did i concede? Because sometimes you have to give in to pay the rent.
- Sapphire0
they're not blind, they're stupid, and likes to fuck designers in the ass
- PeterNorf0
Let them fuck themselves in the as who cares..Is tha possible? ANyways if they want an ugly site... Design the best ugly site you can, take the money and buy some good weed with it!
- reluct0
Hmmm customers are not talking wallets you know. No wonder they will be a pain in the ass of you see them as stupid and ignorant.
Customers want the ugly options, because they have no clue what they really want. If you want them to buy good design you'll have to tell them what good design is.
I use two methods to do this. One is: making true eyecandy. Not the designers love this eyecandy, but the even the client will love this eyecandy. The other is: make your design really smart. Use a real concept (a theme is not a concept in this case) and read as much as you can on branding in order to explain that it helps and improves their brand. It really works.
If al else fails. Do the job from hell and hope the next client will have better taste :)
- Danski0
As always, the key is to make the client think that what you are supplying them is what they wanted all along.
- reluct0
Good point Danski. And it's even better if you can make them feel it was their own idea. LOL.
I'm so glad account managers were invented to do that job.
- silver0
this might be far fetched, but...
People are afraid to stick out (stick out? shit, sound wierd, anyway) in a crowd. You'll go to H&M, wear jeans and a hood, a clothes designer would say the same things we do "the most ugly clothes... how can they wear that".
Think about it. If your client goes for that well designed site, his neighbours and buisiness friends will go like "huhu, faggot, huh, uses money on fancy design huhu".
Lotto millionaires goes for a HUGE mobile home to impress their neighbours, not an architect.
If you ever have tried to buy design yourself you know how difficult it could be. You have your own ideas. I always have a hard time at the hair dresser when some fancy hair designer suggests a special design. When I do go for it I always comes out looking like an old lady or like I'm 16 (I'm 32!), but the (hair)designer says its so cool. the next time I might go somewhere else or do it myself.
mind that we are designers, so our neighbours and friends are designers too.
- silver0
...and, somtimes the style is more important than the design.
I once said that design has NOTHING to do with taste. I still believe that in a certain definition of design, but I will not go into that discussion as it is long and windy.
- rasp0
some just lack vision [and taste]