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designers dirty trick: say you'll change it while you actually change nothing. Call the client a week later stating that it was difficult but you managed the changes and it now looks so much better thanks to the clients request. By than he certainly have forgotten what he wanted and he won't say anything because he is so flattered that he's right and feel important.
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I got him another colour from his branding guide. The page suppose to be for wedding so previously he picked a tiffany blue-ish colour. I got him dark grey but if I tell him it’s dark and grey he will not like it as it is for weddings. So I told him I got him a form of “silver”... very grand and formal for their wedding section.
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@bahua I was going to suggest that. Make him responsible for it. He's not going to go with that anyway.
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@heyheni I am only supposed to be doing the development. The designer made the design with the tiffany blue colour from their guide. The design was signed off but now the marketing team doesn’t like their own blue. Anyway, I got them accepting on using grey from their branding guideline (told them it’s silver).
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@williamli genius! 😃
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@Phippsaurus A couple of years ago, when I was freelancing, I had a similar experience with a customer who asked me to change his green colors to something else, ignoring their style guidelines.
The pages were only accessible to registered users, so I made a custom CSS for his user only 😁.
Also, later I found out that he was color blind.
My friend said an intern designed this UI for an internal site.
No. Just... no
Been looking around ways to improve devrant's user experience a little, Idk whether you guys like it or not.. ...
Client: This blue looks a bit too white against the white background, please make it more standout.
Me: But this is your corporate colour and it is one of the colours in your branding guide. In it, there is also a warning saying “don’t use colours outside our palette” and “don’t use coloured typography on coloured background”. So you should use this blue only on white and you are not suppose to change the colour.
Client: Yeah, keep the colour but make it more saturated and change the tone a bit, so it has more contrast.
Me: 🤔
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