A little laugh for the designers...

[Sprailenes 47]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

How true is that right?

[trailmix 77]

That is so true

The only part they forgot is the part where you have to start extra billing and the customer cannot understand why

[Krikit 1,164]

"If Godzilla shot flaming farts onto your bread - it wouldn't even come close to matching the awesomeness of our toast."

[biglos 0]

Great post! Im a web designer as well...lived that!

[Avery 0]

I think I died inside..... I had someone do that to me once... it was horrific then I quit.

[Peachey 10]

The oatmeal is great.

[lgg 2]

OH my god.

This was like the last web design I did.

The first meeting was like, okay, don't use our colours, our logo, our fonts or any of our marketing material. We want a fresh, new look! I know, makes ZERO sense, right.

3rd meeting later, after 4 organic mock-ups, they bring in a new business partner who, you guessed it, wants to use their fonts, logos, colours and all the rest...

It was a BUST UP!!!!

WEll, it was truly awful.

They did, however, pay for my design time which is better than the nothing some people would get. Deposit. Up. Front.

[Krikit 1,164]

The oatmeal is great.

[Peachey 10]

The oatmeal is great.

www.theoatmeal.com

There's more sketches like that. Like one about Twilight that almost made me piss my pants.

[Krikit 1,164]

The oatmeal is great.

www.theoatmeal.com

There's more sketches like that. Like one about Twilight that almost made me piss my pants.

Ohhhhhhhhhh. I was thinking "There's oatmeal? When did they change it from toast to oatmeal?"

[sara..... 371]

:rofl: im laughing hard i recently also did a do really want to do this for the rest of my life experience.......omg web design, labels cd dvd or clothing, advertisement..media..it dont seem to matter they hire you after seeing your work someplace then decide that they want to design it them self.......had a guy that wanted me to make a dating site for him........so i did up some samples just like i do for anyone........he was never satisfied with any design wanted me to copy some other web site exactly like theirs was...... i ended up telling him he needed to find someone with less experience than i have.........oh and when they want to bargain and do a little trading for part of the fee....trust me you gonna take it in the shorts never fall into that..........thanks for the laugh but u know its spot on lol

sara

[lgg 2]

Oh #######! Tell me about it. Oh and then? How about the 'kids' with little to no web or design experience who come in and 'design' sites for, oh, say, a cookie or a sammich or something therefore making it harder for the rest of us who actually know our ####### to charge a decent fee.

True story.

Fecking kid did a ####### site for a baker that wanted me to do it for a damn freaking COOKIE!!!!

It was a big, fancy cookie but holy #######. I was going to charge scale.

:rofl: im laughing hard i recently also did a do really want to do this for the rest of my life experience.......omg web design, labels cd dvd or clothing, advertisement..media..it dont seem to matter they hire you after seeing your work someplace then decide that they want to design it them self.......had a guy that wanted me to make a dating site for him........so i did up some samples just like i do for anyone........he was never satisfied with any design wanted me to copy some other web site exactly like theirs was...... i ended up telling him he needed to find someone with less experience than i have.........oh and when they want to bargain and do a little trading for part of the fee....trust me you gonna take it in the shorts never fall into that..........thanks for the laugh but u know its spot on lol

sara

Edited December 4, 2009 by lgg

[frenzyheart 2]

OMG. Happened here, too! Only it was my PROFESSOR that caused me to quit!!!! Yeah. Webdesign Professor -- the person who was supposed to help me learn more caused me to quit and drop out of school. I wish I could say that I could have just switched to another professor, but he was the only one. Is it ironic that he is no longer teaching there? In fact, to my knowledge? The whole program was scrapped shortly after I left.

.. I should have just stayed freelance and self-taught.

Edited December 4, 2009 by frenzyheart

[Sprailenes 47]

This happens with my husband and I a lot. He does freelance outside of work and we get some whackos. Like the chef who wanted animated knives... or the photographer who wanted an animated camera walking around the bottom of the page.

I should just point them to angelfire... you want a cheap site? Go make your own.

[lgg 2]

God. Maybe I'll just go give myself a lobotomy.