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I'm an software engineer, not a designer, but I also was left with a bitter taste. Re >> The other does as many drafts and explorations as possible within the
by daveslash 4y ago
I'm an software engineer, not a designer, but I also was left with a bitter taste.
Re >> The other does as many drafts and explorations as possible within the time allotted, then shares their favorite options.
It's good to ideate, but I've found that it's common for junior designers to ideate too much. For example, I had a designer come back with some designs that they felt really excited about, but they all were tied into a new company logo concept and I was like "No, we're not changing our logo. Your logo looks great, and if you/this logo had been included when we first picked something we might have gone with it, but we're asking you to design these XYZ pages, not re-do our startup branding".
- davidivadavid 4y agoIf the brief is vague enough to omit things like "don't rebrand everything" that falls mostly on the person leading that project, in my book, although a more seasoned designer might have challenged the scope definition more.