br3n
Senior Member
I've suffered this problem a few times, My personal policy is to keep designing/tweaking concepts until the client is 100% happy - on occasions thats been met first time or as many as 20 different edits later.
I try when possible to design the initial site perhaps a little more adventurous than they maybe wanted, often its met with "wow didnt think of that.. I like it" but sometimes the opposite. Its about establishing what exactly the client wants (often they dont know, or explain it incorrectly - leaving the wrong impression). Once thats established I find it a great deal easier to create a design without them having to annihilate it.
I remember I asked a friend of mine, whos a very, very good designer what to do in situations like this... He said "being a designer is about persuading a client there ideas are good but unsuited - suggest and alternative but leave them thinking its there doing"
I'll leave it on the note that a client once asked me to make a button which if they clicked a hundred pop-ups appeared with various slogans etc... fun
I try when possible to design the initial site perhaps a little more adventurous than they maybe wanted, often its met with "wow didnt think of that.. I like it" but sometimes the opposite. Its about establishing what exactly the client wants (often they dont know, or explain it incorrectly - leaving the wrong impression). Once thats established I find it a great deal easier to create a design without them having to annihilate it.
I remember I asked a friend of mine, whos a very, very good designer what to do in situations like this... He said "being a designer is about persuading a client there ideas are good but unsuited - suggest and alternative but leave them thinking its there doing"
I'll leave it on the note that a client once asked me to make a button which if they clicked a hundred pop-ups appeared with various slogans etc... fun