Tag Archives: micromanaging

Dealing with painful micromanager clients

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 [...]

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You aren’t designing for yourself

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 [...]

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