Design Killers
June 21, 2007 at 5:22 pm
I just told a client that I’m going to cease working on their project because they are killing the design. We put forward 2 particularly beautiful designs – and for the last few months they (a committee of non-design oriented people ) have changed every element. Today when they were saying they wanted a white panel on a white background. . . and a blue background against a page of blue links, I just had to take a stance.
I have never done this before.
Normally at this stage, I just take the view that the client gets what the client wants and I give up the fight. In this case however we are only at the home page; it’s already dismally dreary – I don’t relish spending the next 6-8 weeks on content and build for something that I won’t put my name on.
Comments (3 responses)
It’s always a committee…always.
Tough call Maryrose! If you can’t convince them of the importance of good visual design than perhaps at least on the accessibility issues of blue on blue! Grrrrr… I hope they get exactly what they want else where and then have to live with the results.
Exactly! But when I made that point, they suggested changing the link colour. Grr is right.
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