Saturday, July 16, 2011

List Type of Clients

After working and knowing people, i understand that there is no such thing as perfect or kind clients. They are all mean and sometimes could become a jerk when you do work for them. Ok, lets list type of client that i hate so far:

1. Perfectionist Client
They pay you low, Comment and critize all details in your design, and ALWAYS giving you suggestion that ALWAYS messing your design. Its like paying 1000$ to buy a car, and they expect car as good as Lamborghini. The time frame of your work will be messed up also

2. Clueless Client
They always said ' i trust you to make it good for me' at the beginning , but at the end, they always said ' i dunno , this seems off, could you fix that for me ?' , and they dont know the problem , dont know how to solve it, and dont know how to deal with it, because designers are GOD who knows everything

3. U turn Client
They approve all of your design until final steps, until then , they change their mind halfway, and giving you new brief to make them whole new design. ' What? extra charge? Designing is easy right? Few clicks and you got your money ! You should grateful!'

4. 'We-are-GOD' Client
They will ask us a job that really ridiculous and impossible for us. They will give you a photo from google,which is only 500px x 300px , asking you to resize it to A1 size, and change that hand that cover up the head in your picture to model waist, and want that poster finished in 15 minutes. Why, we are GOD , dudes !

5. Cheapskate Client
They know you when you still a kid. They know you like to draw. They feel they are good because they giving you a job out from your talent, so you could improve. When they asked to pay , ' Why its so expensive ? Cmon, its easy right ? i dont expect much, and drawing its easy right? 15 minutes work ? isnt it 5$ for A1 poster is good enough? ' They dont know printing A1 poster cost more than 10$ EXCLUDE the design it self


6.Client GURU
Your client is behave as a GOD of design. He will point out that red is good for attracting people, Blue is bad, and so on. Its ok if he got it right, but when its not, they dont like you correcting them. Because he/she has MORE experience from you, making a lot of ads to a lot of designers and see the impact themselves, which always turn bad. Have you asking why they failed mister ?

7.3rd Party Client
The Client get their job from another client, and give it to you. It would be really problemmatic, if the first client is one of the clients above. It will ruin your life for several weeks, because the 3rd party client will pressured from first client, and they will double pressure you

8. and so on

I dont say all of my clients are bad, they are actually good people. But please considerate when giving us designers a brief or a job. We are human too