Design Challenges

Patience is a Virtue --

and although not everyone has it, it is highly recommended if you are a designer. For example, I am currently working with a major client. This client is, however, very finicky and has gone back and forth on their likes on several occasions. I, as an expert on my field, have made several recommendations. At first, this client chose not to take me up on my suggestions, now I find myself redoing what they thought they liked and changing it slowly, revision after revision, to what I originally suggested.

As I said, as a designer you need to have a lot of patience, Stew Leonard said it right, the client is always right and they are paying the price for the privilege. Don't lose sight of who pays the bill, the bottom line is that you get to charge for every minute you put into a project, the more times they change their mind, the more you make. Hang in there, if they liked it on the first try, life would become boring without challenges.