Comments on: 20 Worst Habits of Clients

By: Tania

Tania — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:57:26 +0000

Thanks for the article, its very very helpful to me,nowadays i have no job, i was very worried about that because the indian designer charge very very low and its very disappointing for me, how come its possible but after reading this article
i have got the confidence on me, but one thing i have to say that as a graphic designer we have to keep our patience, thanks again for the article.:)

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By: Efe Buyuran

Efe Buyuran — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:23:47 +0000

Having faced just so many of these problems myself. I believe things would go easier for me If I have read this before all these specific problems occur one by one. I could have been more careful & prepared. Instead of getting that experience by the “hard way”.

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By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:11:52 +0000

I’ll add “Non tech-savvy clients”. We’ve built websites with CMS for clients who want to be able to do updates themselves, only to discover after launch that they have almost no idea how to operate a CMS. Be prepared to spend hours of Q&A trying to explain the site updating process with clients like this.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:33:04 +0000

I will add one more: “Lack of respect”

The is when the project’s being delivered and the time to “pay”. Such as questioning why this design or this particular change would take X amount of hours not the Y amount of minutes. Then, questioning if you are a “professional”, while made a statement afterwards: “if you are a professional it should not take you that long to get it done!”

A typical kind of client anyone should avoid.

By: Captonjohn

Captonjohn — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:48:42 +0000

Thanks for this extremely superb article. Another worse habit I observed that when we send them a design they says

“I didn’t liked it that’s why I rejected it.” But when we cross question about that what you didn’t liked in design they are unable to tell us anything specific.

Sometimes they reject design just they don’t like without analyzing it on clear message, effectiveness, idea etc.

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Printer Supplies — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:31:57 +0000

Thanks to the article, well thought out. I searched for a while to find the right answer to my questions!

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