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- ItTango
"We have the paper design of the website but we just need some help bringing it alive."
oh, lord.
- UKV0
Sounds reasonable. Remember to ask if they want fries with that.
- boobs0
They obviously want Papervision.
- monospaced0
I'm not joking when I say this. It's a good thing; not really a big deal. In fact, it's liberating because it allows you guys to actually design, not just build. No?
- lukus_W0
I hate clients who want to micro-manage with an absolute passion. I despise it.
- nb0
I have a client run by father and son team. Industrial sector. Nearly every time I've met with them, they offer me a 500+ page catalog with about 20,000 products (or a PDF of it) and ask, "Can't we just put this up on the website?"
It's always fun.
- lukus_W0
ItTango .. let them loose in gomockingbird.com. It could turn out to be a really constructive process.
- pizzafire0
glue the paper to their screen. voila.
- PIZZA0
"Your designs were not quite right, I've mocked up how I think it should look by screen capturing your work and moving it about in Powerpoint"
Came close to walking out when working with that cunt, fucking social media experts
- they have no idea how insulting they sound.... do you re-arrange accountant spreadsheets?!?vaxorcist
- The worst part was he kicked off because I added lines that were in his "design" butPIZZA
- it turned out they were just artefacts from his screen capture, apart from one which wasn't. How the fuck I was supposed to know is anyones guessPIZZA
- supposed to know that without him telling me is anyones guessPIZZA
- vaxorcist0
I think it's the previsualization paradox and the ego protection at the same time.... clients don't really know what they want till they see it 70% done, then suddenly they realize they want something a bit different, and nobody wants to admit that they have only a vague idea....
- They kind of know what they don't want, but can't convey that to you, and only try after you already work your ass off.juhls
- BusterBoy0
I hate clients who come to me with money and wanting things done to their specifications. I mean, who the fuck do they think they are? I should be telling them what they need goddamnit!
- so tell themPupsipu
- I love the sarcasm. So true.monospaced
- Amicus0
@BusterBoy
Your sarcasm started to ring true.... and then I realised the client shouldn't be worried at all about the look of anything, but rather about the results they want to achieve... a boost in sales etc.
How they get the result is our job.. not theirs.
It's like going to a Financial Planner and telling them you want this type of account with that type of loan, repaid in this way with these terms. It's just ass backward.
- 23kon0
Hey, as long as they have the PAPER MONEY to pay to bring it alive!
- cannonball19780
"We have the paper design of the website but we just need some help bringing it alive."
"No thank you. We do our own wireframes"
- pillhead0
Paper design of the website, hahahah, your so fucked.
- d_rek0
looks like the hard part is done. Just find a suitable template, add some decorative flourishes and call it a day. Check plz!
- uan0
easy, do it like this:
http://www.ninjatune.net/kidkoal…
- mydo0
by design, they probably mean wireframe. which would render all these comments useless.
what a waste.
- How about learning the actual terms of their fucking jobPIZZA
- @mydo, I agree.monospaced