How many website options?
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- helpmeqbn
I'm designing a website for a client, how many options of a full site do you initially show?
Im kind of new to this.
- NONEIS0
Only as many as you are OK with actually doing, and no more than three. Don't show a damn thing you don't love to death - they will pick it.
- +1 with the last part. they always seem to pick the one you hatesilentpost
- maybe because you work on it the most, trying to not make it sucksilentpost
- silentpost0
3, 2 revisions.
up to you, really. what's in your contract?
- inteliboy0
2, 2 revisions.
used to do 3, but the quality get's diluted imo, and the client seems to always prefer the worse option...
- liveforever0
agree with inteliboy (2,2)
the 2 options are always more solid than the 3rd
- unparmas0
Just one of course.
http://goo.gl/Y2UhY < this applies to website design as well
- Nathan_Adams0
Depends on what their budget is. If it's tight, then do one, if they don't mind spending, do more.
Also, if you do more, only present one initially (the one that you think is the best solution). Only dig out the alternative if they're not responding to the first one.
- thatboyneave0
If you understand what they need, then give them one option - the one that solves their problem. If you are going to give them a bunch of options you are doing so because you are incapable of recommending the best approach.
If you can't settle on one option yet, then spend more time talking to them to figure out what they want.
You're the expert.
- joshtrix0
Depends on how many good ideas you genuinely have, as most people said here 2 - 3 is the normality.
- chalk0
Maximum of two, but I only ever do two when the client doesn't like the first. Always try to push just one design if it's the right design.
- maikel0
I used to do 3
The one I like, the safe one and one I hated that was more than likely to be chosen.
Nowadays I do as much as the client wants, and put the hours in for it.Normally I would suggest to spend more time defining sketches and wireframes and then I put some eye candy on top...
A hand sketch while meeting usually helps to direct what things your client will not want and will save you time.
- vaxorcist0
I once worked at a smart agency..... they did one most of the time, as they were able to pre-sell the idea, and establish early on in the process that the client was NOT the target market, that risks are worth taking, otherwise why bother with doing something that will blend into the noise of everything else out there....
Once we had a customer who, at the last minute, insisted on 3 prototypes.... we had spent a LONG time on version A, a couple of days on version B, and a couple of hours whipping up Version C, but they all had the same number of pages.... just before presentation, creative director told us to be quiet till the end... when he presented to this somewhat difficult client, he said Version C was the main one we wanted, it was the culmination of lots of work, Version B was an interesting variation we'd consider, and Version A is just something we'd whipped up because he'd asked at the last minute for a third design.... the client picked A.... human nature is odd, and a smart creative director's mind-reading skills are sometimes amazing...