Comments on: If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers

By: padre

padre — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:05:33 +0000

sometimes you forget that in fact a customer doesn’t know exactly what he wants and how to describe it like a designer / architect could start work without any questions left. the real work of an architect is the consulting, asking the right questions and guide the customer to through the steps. and here is what most designers and so called creatives get lost: they want a ready-to-go concept that fits to their working style. and this is what you can forget at all. a good designer starts work WITH a customer and that has to include a long way before the first photoshop document can be opened. anyway – its a funny story…

By: rageshgr (Ragesh G R)

rageshgr (Ragesh G R) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:36:46 +0000

If WD were likr Archs LOL! – http://blog.centresource.com/2009/09/11/if-architects-had-to-work-like-web-designers-2/

By: MAXUS_CREATIVE (Maxus Creative)

MAXUS_CREATIVE (Maxus Creative) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:36:26 +0000

If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers- this is for all you interweb designers out there. http://bit.ly/3N77Aj (via @shanoriffic )

By: shanoriffic (Shannon)

shanoriffic (Shannon) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:28:52 +0000

clients and non-designers alike – please read this as it should help you better understand what you really sound like http://bit.ly/3N77Aj

By: chr1stophe (Christophe Rosseel)

chr1stophe (Christophe Rosseel) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:30:34 +0000

RT @christophe3_0 If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers. Really too funny! http://tinyurl.com/lqbsp8

By: christophe3_0 (Christophe Bouten)

christophe3_0 (Christophe Bouten) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:24:44 +0000

If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers. Really too funny! http://tinyurl.com/lqbsp8

By: Fill

Fill — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:48:47 +0000

Oh man, don’t get me started! Some of my ‘favorites’:

- You bend over backwards creating a design. The client goes away to ‘think’ about it, and wa-la a few months later you find out that the client took your design and asked a high-school kid to implement it (horribly) in exchange for a PS3 game.

- The client approved the design (sent as a PDF) and after weeks of hard work implementing it, they are ’stunned’ how LARGE it is and hates it. Their PDF viewer opens PDFs at 75% size by default. (We proof by having clients view a jpeg mock-up in a browser window now.)

- For some reason, the client understands that software can be buggy and sometimes they have to pay for upgrades that fix some of the bugs. But, you are forever hounded until the end of days to fix any little bug or misunderstand about their web site for free. Worse, the client actually won’t pay for months and months for the web app until they are ’satisfied’ that all the bugs have been found and fixed.

- Client uses IE5, an old beta Mozilla, a really old AOL browser, etc. and demands that their site work with it because, “if I’m using this browser, I’m sure lots of other people are too!”

- Client ‘assumed’ setup, hosting, maintenance, backing up, 24-hour support, response to contact-us inqueries, regular blog posts, etc., etc. was “included” in the web dev quote.

- After that one-time where the client needed your personal cell # for what ever reason, they now call it all the time instead of your work #.

- Client gets angry when they get a bill for your time because they hired their own in-house programmer who has been contacting you for help.

- (Same) Client moved web dev in-house (which is fine), but their ‘webmaster’ breaks the site and thinks you did it out of spite or something. You not only fix it for them for free, but you have to *prove* that you didn’t do it.

- Client calls asking for urgent help because their router, cable modem, etc. broke and they can’t reach their site.

- Client wants you to collaborate with their sister in-law because she’s really ‘artsy’ and took a semester of interior design at the local community college back in the 90’s.

on and on and on…

By: Josh The Oak

Josh The Oak — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:08:45 +0000

Of course, you get these from internal “customers” as well who expect you to remodel their rooms without going through the main house at all.

ha ha *sob*

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By: hyperagora (alex)

hyperagora (alex) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:20:09 +0000

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