11 Differences Between Designers And Clients Show Why They Will Never Understand Each Other

Accurate

Yes. Which is why Jonathan Ive's hideous palette is so effing ironic.

Totally !!!

Knowing that colors die is a sad thing to know but it's a fact.

This whole post is wonderful and beautifully sums up my learning as client over the last 12 months. Thank god our web team stuck with us and now we speak the same language. Well done

But we want Comic Sans!

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Oh I hate it when they do that. Blech.

LMAO

I do not see a contradiction here. A client normally uses Word, a program to write text and to give it _some_formatings. It is clear that professionalls for other jobs than writing a text will use other programs...be it Photoshop for editing graphics, Eclise for programming Java, or a CAD programm to specify a house.

Once upon a time I've received a leaflet project saved in excel. EXCEL!

Designer: Ps-Ai-Id: "P"lease "S"ee, "A"ll "I"mplementations "I"n "D"esigning tools only!!! Client: W-X-P: you kiddin me? I guess "W"indows "X"P" office tools are enough!!

I think they're referring to file formats and quality of the images or files. A designer wants to give you the best possible image. The client will ask for a word document with their logo pasted into it.

I've worked with designers on 4 different website designs now. We've used US based and Indian based designers. US designers that I've worked with (supposedly high dollar ones) are whiny, complainy and slow. Indians have no problem and react quickly. And our overall designs have been much better. I use Publisher to create layouts and it does a better job in many many circumstances than what the designers end up using. It is a powerful tool if you know how to use it. I am always asked by designers how or where I was able to do what I did with it as they seem impressed. When I tell them though, they act repulsed.

One of the things I hate the most!! If they see an "empty" space, THEY MUST fill it up. They are paying for the whole space, so use it, dammit!!! *sigh*

This one partly depends on where the product is appearing, also. I worked in newspapers, and we got a lot of ads that would have worked great in magazines where they use glossy paper rather than pulp and an ad usually takes up an entire page. Sometimes leaving all that whitespace just made the ad look tacky and unfinished against the rest of the page of news.

Oh man! That's totally true! Wanna cry!

I am afraid that enough designer nowadays will ratherr revert to stock photo sites...

The client sends you the thumbnail to use, not the image, and then gets angry when you go and find and and tell them that it's from a stock photo site and they have to pay for it. Or they say, "Take the watermark off, no one will ever know."

It`s not about that: as enginer/designer learned to don`t use a photograph from internet, because it`s illegal, respect author etc, so they make own pictures?

I recommend my free project for designers, if you need authentic CC0 photos. http://realgraphy.org Cheers. :)

Will you hit the yellow or the red button?

haahah this is really true. My color session online is probably one of the most watched of anythijng of its sort. understanding color is beyond many designers.

But, the yellow looks better!

A good designer names the layers.

the one with the top hat every time.

I <3 layers.

Before I started learning programming, I thought PCs would give me whatever I wanted just by clicking a button or two.

And ramen

If the client don't have no money bags, don't turn on your brain light bulb.

What? Do clients pay you?

Ha ha ha

"Make it POP"