how do you deal?!
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- leftwave
you're a designer, an expert, a professional. they're an expert and a professional in some other industry, but it's certainly not design.
how do you guys deal with clients who insist on making things their way? at some point must you give in to their awful taste and just create shit?
discuss...
- brandelec0
yup, its dollars vs taste.
all you can say is trust me, i know what i'm doing but in the end its up to them to hear you out or not, so if not, it's still their money
- soynutz70
i'm having the same issue, driving me insane, butchering my designs. so damn frustating. i guess its just gonna keep happening... some one kill me!
- jevad0
a good designer knows how to maipulate teh situation to their advantage
- brandelec0
a good designer knows how to maipulate teh situation to their advantage
jevad
(aug 20 04, 12:16)-------
don't forget to bring some pot brownies during your presentation as a treat for everyone
"duu-uude like show it again tsk tsk tsk"
- k0na_an0k0
There is a fine line you must walk.
Sometimes I will say "Listen, I really know nothing about (insert what it is they do) so I wouldn't really come in and try and tell you how to do things different right?!? So this being my profession it is my professional opinion that we entertain other options."
Or something like that.
- zedvox0
Jevad seducing them with your brit accent when things don't go your way doesnt make you a good designer !!! ;)
- grayhood0
i only try once to tell them that in my professional opinion it should be done this way. after that if they want me to smear my poop on the page i will. some people want a designer some want a pair of hands, you can't argue with the hands folk.
- ********0
you do it, you give into them because they PAY you, bottomline. You can suggest things and a good person on the other side will realize that you have expertise, but if they want to be a wanker let them. :)
- ********0
i thought for sure everyone would jump on the "you just have to educate them" standard response.
sigh. sometimes, you just go with it and incorporate their ideas the best you can. they pay the bills. or you go with their idea.
- mg330
a switchblade, butterfuly knife or folding straight razor in your back pocket usually does the trick.
- soynutz70
gun to the head and a smile
- mg330
And Kona, a good variation on your suggestion is "You'd say I were a stupid fool if I tried to do your job, so don't take offense to my telling you right now that you're a moron and don't know what you're talking about."
- mg330
A haircut like this:
And apparatus like this:
- jevad0
au contraire
- mg330
And then I show them what I can do to their women!
:D
- BonSeff0
i fired all my freelance clients last month. mostly because they had no idea what they wanted. then after many hours of research on my end and a solution offered, they are suddenly the expert and now have a better way. and my ideas are wrong? fuck those mensas. i dont answer their calls or emails either.
broke those a-holes off clean.
- mrdobolina0
Bonseff had to, before he ended up having to put his hands on 'em.
- leftwave0
not the answers i was hoping for, but they really are the "right" way to deal. well, most of them are :) thanks for the insight.
- BonSeff0
well there was this one client i wouldnt have minded puttin my hands on. she would always come over drunk. she was rad, but married. and always complained about my invoices.
- ********0
or I generally get Doberman Pinchers after them when they piss me off. Like sick 'em, sorta' stuff.