6 Common Statements which clients say to Graphic Designers

Feb. 17, 2010 - PRLog -- In your graphic designing career, you will have to deal with a variety of potential clients. For that reason, you need to be versatile enough to handle each and every type of client accordingly. Different and, at times, bizarre queries may come from clients that hire you. It is seldom that you will come across a client who is mature enough not to come up with silly questions. So in order to be prepared beforehand, I have listed some of the most frequent things that you might hear as a graphic designer from you clients and how you should tackle them.

1) “I want the best design, but this is all I can afford”
This is one of the most frequent things that you get to hear from your clients. Everybody wants the best results but never willing to pay the best price for it. While the decision to lower your prices is completely up to you, but if you are confident on your capabilities as a graphic designer, don’t compromise. Make them understand that everything comes with a price. Explain the quality of time, effort and research you put in, for which you deserve to be paid accordingly.
   


2) “What if I make the advance payment and don’t like your work?”
This is a very absurd question which most of the clients ask. Although your client hires you after a thorough examination of your design portfolio and claims to be satisfied with your design capabilities but still remains doubtful. Remember that it is your client who has chosen you to do his work, this means he is
   
content with you work beforehand. Just to avoid this mess, always work out the initial payment with your clients so that you may not get deprived of your hard earned money in the middle of your efforts.

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3) “I want you to design something similar to this…”
Many a times, clients come to you with a design carved in mind (probably of a competitor) and ask you to make something comparable to it. The trouble begins when you present your design proposals on the same pattern and the client starts comparing it to the inspired resource. Now the mistakes that the client points out are not originally yours, but the faults are in the design that he wanted you to imitate. Guide your client
   
on an ethical level that imitating someone else’s work is not the best way to go. Convince them that they need to be unique and differentiable from their competitors.


4) “Is it an original concept?”
However this one may sound offensive to many graphics designers, but be prepared to expect all kinds of queries from your clients. Graphic designers should not get hurt by this question as it is the clients’ right to validate that the work isn’t copied or plagiarized. A simple approach to counter this query is to make a log of each and every step that you involve in while designing for your client. For example when using Photoshop, make sure you save the “psd” file as a proof of how you actually came about with the work that you have completed.
   


5) “What the…? This is not what you showed me there.”
This is a very common complain that you might hear from your clients when you send them the finished design. When clients open your design work on their computer screens, it appears completely different, so they argue that this was not the design you showed them previously. What actually happens is that the monitor settings of your client may differ from yours. Since every monitor or LCD has different screen settings, the result may vary. Hence it is better to show the design work to your clients on a hard copy.
   


6) “Hey I’ve changed my mind … I don’t need a design anymore”
This is the most frightening thing a graphic designer can hear from his client. Imagine you’ve sweated countless days and nights to build the project assigned to you and in the middle or the end of the project, the clients comes to you and says “I don’t need the design anymore, thanks”. Do you think his “thanks” is enough to compensate the graphic designer’s
   
endless efforts? That is why you should protect yourself with a contract, in case your client drops you in the middle of the project. Clarify beforehand that he will be billed according to the amount of work done. Irrespective of how much the project has been completely, you should be compensated for the efforts you have made.


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