Comments on: 10 Secret Code Phrases to Get What You Want from Your Graphic Designer

By: Russell Davies

Russell Davies — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:15:59 +0000

My all time favourite is.. “but it doesn’t have the WOW factor”. It’s a sure fire way to annoy our team every time we hear that.

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By: Eddy

Eddy — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:17:17 +0000

Yeah, this is the way how marketing people and cumunicators mean to “comunicate” with the graphic designers.And you can clearly hear the all knowing arrogance of the marketing people who mean they know everything about design because they dont know where their job ends. This is the kind of people who think graphic desigerns are just moving some pictures arround the whole day. And you always can save money with the design. This Article is crap and it approved me one more time how PR and Marketing people work when they’re coming to me with crappy ideas and thinking they have invited something totaly crazy new stuff.and the title is typical “how to et what you want”. why don’t you make something like 10 things you can do wrong or after this ten thing your designer will fucking hate you.

By: Netpaths LA

Netpaths LA — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:45:52 +0000

An article I can fall in love with – Thats a bit of a bold statement, but this would be a helpful post to reference so prospective know the best practices for dealing with web designers.

By: Pete Wood

Pete Wood — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:44:48 +0000

Fantastic article and I wish it had been written 10 years ago when I was a web designer in HTML 2.0 when EVERYONE was a designer – whether they had the eye for it or not!! Cheers

By: webitude

webitude — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:22:48 +0000

Designing is most important part for first impression, but it doesn’t mean it should shiny. Good designing means understanding user’s mindset who are coming to site with motive. For example if same user go to bar and gym will have different mind set both the place, so designing should take care of that as well.

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:30:12 +0000

Its really hard to find designer who work form heart. Choose designer based upon their work not based upon their rates.

Also from our experience designers who are having background of arts are normally great.

By: Dave George | ZerviDesk Systems

Dave George | ZerviDesk Systems — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:59:08 +0000

To get a client like the one which is mentioned in point 10 is a distant dream.

By: Joel Smith

Joel Smith — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:55:35 +0000

First, thank you for writing about this topic. It is definitely one the main ingredients of success for designers and has been one of the bigger lessons I’ve had to learn.

While what was described in points 7-10 is practically the holy grail client for designers, they are few and far between. This is why it is mainly your responsibility as a designer (and a sane human being) that you manage the expectations of the relationship between you and your client.

I’ve had great success in letting my client in on my creative process, letting him or her know what to expect next. If you can demonstrate a clear path, most clients will follow.

You pulled my heart strings on this one.. THANK YOU! :)