Buyers are Liars, wherever they are

“Do what you think if right”, “What do you suggest?”, “You are the designer, you be in charge”. These are some statements any designer or developer would love to hear (I guess) when given given with a project.

So he comes up with a cool nice design thinking that the client would be impressed. Sooner or later he would find that the client have something else in mind.

Buyers are Liars

Oh boy, where did the idea come now? Why didn’t you tell this earlier?

All the work is gone, he have to start from scratch. And if he is not working on a hourly rate, gone are those hours too.

I have come across this situation in every project I have worked on. They don’t know what they really want, so they give us the baton.

Better nail them first, and ask what they have in mind. Give them samples or ask for samples. And be prepared to be feel down. #NoteToSelf

Here is a related good read: Buyers are Liars. Wait, What?

Buyers are liars. Amen.


Comments

8 responses to “Buyers are Liars, wherever they are”

  1. Looks like, you just gone in to web designing for the first time, right?

    1. Wrong, been doing it for the past 1.5 years, its that I started a personal blog to write such stuffs only recently ๐Ÿ˜‰

      1. I too gone through the same thing. ๐Ÿ˜‰

        1. Everyone who has done a project for a client would have seen the same thing I guess. I see it all the time. Clients should go to buyers school first. lol

  2. nice tip.. wil not forget this here after..

  3. typo – designer of developer.. its ‘or’ right ?

    1. Lol, yeah. Lets assume it never happened ๐Ÿ˜‰

      Good to see you here buddy, thanks for dropping in ๐Ÿ™‚

  4. monkeymind Avatar
    monkeymind

    Good post.

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