It truly is exhausting to be on the lookout for a good web designer.
And I get why.
It’s often frustrating, confusing, and tedious to find what you need, especially after having had regrettable experiences in the past.
Here are some things that often go wrong when designing a website. See if any sound familiar to you.
- Endless website revisions that drag on infinitely.
- Aspects you didn’t like that were never fixed or solved. Those ugly, untied loose ends.
- Mediocre results.
- Not knowing how to access your website to make changes and developing an aversion to it.
- Site becomes outdated, and turns obsolete in no time.
- Reaching a point where you don’t want to give out the URL of your website out of pure embarrassment.
But, as true as this may be, your company still needs its website (and you have to handle that yourself).
I’m a web designer.
I had to come up with a way to work that is very different to that of my designer colleagues.
Because, for me, it had all become unbearable.
Do you want to know why your web design experiences have gone so wrong?
What I’m about to tell you is the result of 15 years designing websites (while suffering my way through.)
My clients loved my work. I wanted them to be comfortable, so I made sure to make the experience nice and easy for them.
Every project started off just right, but as revision rounds went on, the designs became progressively worse. Tension and defensiveness arose between me and my client.
It wasn’t a comfortable situation for either of us.
I didn’t understand how things got so complicated when we started off so well.
Somehow, clients ended up leading my design process for me.
And it wasn’t just happening to me. Most, if not all designers complain about the same thing.
Jokes about us designers being slaves to our clients. «10 client requests that drive you crazy» Listicles.
Everyone just accepted it as an occupational hazard.
It ruined my life and business.
I refused to put up with it anymore. I didn’t find solace in joking about it either.
For me, the issue was a serious one. Good designs turned bad, deadlines stretched into infinity, and both me and my client ended up becoming irritated with each other.
I had to make changes.
My first idea was this:
In midst of design work, the moment I realized something was going wrong, I would write down what was happening and how I felt about it at that moment.
Especially how it made me feel.
I wrote it just as it came to me, full caps lock, all typos included. I wanted to read it after finishing the project to feel all of that anger and frustration again.
After finishing the job, I’d read my »sh*t that went wrong» list. I could feel it all with intensity again, and that encouraged me to think of solutions.
I concluded that I didn’t like designer/client relations as everyone understood them.
Nor did I like the process of designing as everyone understood it.
I took a leap of faith and implemented several, radically different ideas.
I had to do things the exact opposite of everyone else.
Only then did I get rid of what made designing websites a nightmare for both designers and clients.
I tested my method on several web projects.
It worked. It was just a couple of simple ideas. The challenge being that, while they were simple, you had to be brave to implement them.
I was happy, proud, and ready to share this valuable info with other designers.
What I didn’t expect was…
They loved my ideas and listened with great interest.
But… they said they didn’t dare. They couldn’t do that to their clients.
Even knowing the result would be better for everyone (AND that it would make them more money).
They were afraid.
One of the ideas that alarmed them the most was the pricing.
For me, the price of websites for businesses should start at 50k.
The reason for it makes so much sense that once you read on it, it will suddenly seem obvious.
You will find why i chose this price and the rest of ideas that terrified my designer colleagues in this pdf.
I’ve compiled the changes that allowed me to seamlessly design websites into this pdf.