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Editor's Corner: Crazy Clients
I recently heard a tale of woe that's familiar to most designers. To protect the innocent, I've changed the design firm's name to Ultimate Designers; to protect the guilty, I've changed the client's name to Clueless Company.
Clueless Company hired Ultimate Designers to create a quick and dirty Web site, with the understanding that Ultimate would design a more well-researched replacement site as soon as Clueless got past a pressing deadline.
You can probably guess how that went. The clients, forgetting that the main goal of the first design was speed, asked for change after change. That was frustrating enough to Ultimate, but the real groaners were the kinds of changes Clueless requested. Here are my two favorites:
- Regarding text set in Georgia (Georgia!), Clueless asked, "Can you make this a less techy font, like Arial"?
- And regarding the main body text, Clueless requested, "Can you change this font from Helvetica to Arial?"
To which the only possible reply is, "Aaaarrrggghhh!!!"
Tell everyone about your experiences in the "Clueless Clients" forum thread.
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