Designer Interest Curve
Working in a design studio can be both amazingly creative and inspiring, and at other times really dull and repetitive: I look forward to fresh design work, and loath endless image amends. But over the piece I’ve discovered that even when fresh work arrives, the initial excitement of the brief and first concepts can be quickly eroded by fussy clients and permanent design amends. I’ve seen fellow design colleagues go through the same thing, initially fired up for a fresh project, only to moan insistently about it five weeks and a thousand amends later.
This has inspired me to create the fantastic Breadline “Designer Project Interest Curve” in order to plot interest in a project over time. If any of you fellow designers experience the same thing when designing let me know so I know it isn’t just me!
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LOL!, that is really true. I am on your blog from last 30 mins. reading all the articles. This thing you said above is true. I have been designing websites since last 4 years, and the trouble is with no so educated clients in India or those who have no idea or sense of design.
They give is nice briefs to work with, and in a week’s time they seem to be confused with what they want. They simply want things from all good looking website and there have been times when the clients simply seem to have left logic in their gardens.
Well of course you’ve seen this… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfprIxNfCjk
and the follow up is great too… For us, we would need to revise the interest curve to include the production and post production logistics phase with an equivalent down turn on the interest level that results in ‘ready to throw in the towel’. I have renamed 2009 as ‘the year of client refuses to understand why quality production squished into a 2-day turnaround creates a contradictory brief’. Oh and add to that a client’s comment of early in the year - and that has rung true ever since - “darling, no budget is the new black!”