tods5eshoes
Ununokt
Dołączył: 23 Lut 2011
Posty: 18577
Przeczytał: 0 tematów
Ostrzeżeń: 0/5 Skąd: England
|
Wysłany: Pon 14:46, 14 Mar 2011 Temat postu: nike basketball trainers 6508 |
|
|
Clients From Hell
As a designer, this article is aimed specifically at other designers who have felt my pain! And if you're just breaking into the industry - understand that no matter what you do, you won't be able to avoid the inevitable "Clients From Hell". Here are a few of my experiences...
"I want this bit to be red and this bit to be green"
No,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you don't. That would look stupid. It still amazes me how much non-designers will fight for their opinion, despite it being wrong. While I agree that opinion is of course just that - an opinion - when something is barely legible and looks frankly horrible, that opinion *must* be negated.
"Drop shadows always look good!! 1"
If used correctly, and subtley, they can indeed bring an extra dimension to a piece of work. Use and abuse them, and they will bastardize your baby into a mish mash of horrendous, amateuristic rubbish! I think drop shadows perform well when they are small,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], light and placed only on objects that *should* cast a shadow. Don't go dropping them on every button on your page, and every piece of text that you think needs to stand out.
"3D - it's the future innit! "
No it's the past. Using 3D objects to illustrate elements of a web page has been done to absolute death. Hints at 3D - gradients on buttons for example - is a more modern technique, which you will see on most Web 2. 0 websites, but even these are beginning to appear dated.
"Can we make that a different colour? "
This seemingly innocent request is probably one of the most difficult challenges faced by the designer. Changing a colour could very well impact the entire site - meaning you will be trawling through PSD's, exporting new graphics, editing your stylesheets... all for the client to then say they preferred it how it was.
These are just a few issues that web designers must tackle. I find that the best way when starting a project is to steer the client into your direction of thinking, but allow them to have their own opinions also. 99% of the time, you know best, and unless you are controlled by the companies branding policies, you are well within your rights to argue "No,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], people can't read small grey text on a whitebackground very easily". Unfortunately, the client does have the FINAL SAY,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but as a designer you are obliged to point them in the right direction as much as possible.
Matt Saunders
Space Clothing
Topics related articles:
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Post został pochwalony 0 razy
|
|