Dootch

I’m sure at some point it’s happened to most freelancers. You spend hours on a design, working on getting all the last little details right. The design is pixel perfect, everything has plenty of room to breathe, it looks great and it feels like you’re going to hit a home run. Then you show it [...]

As freelancers, it’s our job to improve our clients condition. One thing I’ve realized a lot lately as I’ve been outsourcing more and more, is that good planning saves lots of time. Yesterday I was working on upgrading a site for a client that I made when I first started freelancing in 2007. The css [...]

Every freelancer has had them – the client that wants things exactly different. Sometimes they ruin the design and don’t make sense, sometimes it’s personal preference. What we need to do, is educate our clients from the beginning. Feedback has to be objective and customer focused. If you’re dealing with a committee, get one person [...]

One thing I find a lot of freelance designers, especially young designers, have trouble with, is the concept of designing for clients. I recently had contracted a designer to design a website for a client. The designer didn’t like the look of the clients logo, so he made some changes to make it fit with [...]