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That sounds like web development. If I had a penny for every time we're asked for more zazz, pop, pow, shazam, zing, shizzle, pizazz, "something", cowbell... I

That sounds like web development. If I had a penny for every time we're asked for more zazz, pop, pow, shazam, zing, shizzle, pizazz, "something", cowbell... I'd use them to bury the meddling fuckers who ask for this shit.

throwawayaway 12y ago
flaming skull gifs.
jnem 12y ago
The words I dread the most are, "it needs more wow factor". I always ask, "great, can yoh show me what that looks like?"
danielweber 12y ago
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell "Could you make the design pop a bit more?"
- Alex3917 12y ago
  I think the key line here is: > I also don't know how to design websites based on someone else's feelings. That's what design is, so if you're not doing that then you're probably not a designer.
  - nickbauman 12y ago
    Not even wrong. Design is defined by making studied choices within the constraints of the need or purpose. Rarely are these emotional, and when they are it is merely because of a successful connection between the people and the ideas that the purpose of the design created. The emotion is a side effect of good design, not the point. Only Marketing people see design as "emotional" because they see the world through a lens of shaping human behavior through our primate genetic programming.
    - Alex3917 12y ago
      > Only Marketing people see design as "emotional" because they see the world through a lens of shaping human behavior through our primate genetic programming. The word design literally means 'fate', i.e. the absence of free will. Shaping behavior is the point, making studied choices is only the means to the end. C.f. Robert Frost's poem Design: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/design http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/design
      - nickbauman 12y ago
        Evolution doesn't plan. Design that shapes behavior assumes a god-like view of the world which employed by humans always arrogates to the point of overreaching. For design to be humane, it is behavior that shapes design, not the other way around.
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leviathan 12y ago
Back in the days I worked a while as a web designer, spent my days in Photoshop, learned all the shortcuts. So I was showing the design to this client who always wanted to modify things, and he said he doesn't like the orange a lot and if we can tweak it. I had a red layer, and a yellow layer over it with opacity, so I clicked on the yellow layer, and started pressing random numbers on the numpad (pressing numbers changes the value of the layer's opacity) so the colors were jumping randomly from red to orange to yellow and the hues in between, finally I settled back on the exact value that was before, and that seemed to satisfy the client. The color was now perfect.
- bornon5 12y ago
  Similar thing happened to me - a client didn't like a shade of blue I was using, even though it was the exact shade she had told me to use. She then sent me a PowerPoint file with just a blue box in it and told me to use that blue instead. Of course it was the exact same blue as before. I re-sent her the file, and she immediately transmitted her enthusiastic approval.
  - Terr_ 12y ago
    "What do you mean, calibrate my monitor color?"
jlebar 12y ago
If you haven't read this before, I highly recommend: http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html
- jallmann 12y ago
  ...That guy is just an asshole. Not funny at all. He should just have declined instead of screwing around and wasting everybody's time.
  - philh 12y ago
    I found it a little funny, but not funny enough to justify being that level of asshole.
    - eigenvector 12y ago
      It's satire. He didn't actually write this and there is no missing cat.
      - jallmann 12y ago
        Not so sure about that [1]: > Q: Are your articles (like Missing Missy), real emails? > A: The email articles are verbatim ... Even if his pieces are meant to be satire, IMO it's not particularly good satire. To each his own, I guess. [1] http://live.washingtonpost.com/david-thorne-internet-is-a-playground.html http://live.washingtonpost.com/david-thorne-internet-is-a-pl...
        philh 12y ago
        I'm curious why this was downvoted?
        eigenvector 12y ago
        Not sure, but that interview is satirical too...

throwawayaway 12y ago

flaming skull gifs.

jnem 12y ago

The words I dread the most are, "it needs more wow factor". I always ask, "great, can yoh show me what that looks like?"

danielweber 12y ago

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell "Could you make the design pop a bit more?"

Alex3917 12y ago
I think the key line here is: > I also don't know how to design websites based on someone else's feelings. That's what design is, so if you're not doing that then you're probably not a designer.
- nickbauman 12y ago
  Not even wrong. Design is defined by making studied choices within the constraints of the need or purpose. Rarely are these emotional, and when they are it is merely because of a successful connection between the people and the ideas that the purpose of the design created. The emotion is a side effect of good design, not the point. Only Marketing people see design as "emotional" because they see the world through a lens of shaping human behavior through our primate genetic programming.
  - Alex3917 12y ago
    > Only Marketing people see design as "emotional" because they see the world through a lens of shaping human behavior through our primate genetic programming. The word design literally means 'fate', i.e. the absence of free will. Shaping behavior is the point, making studied choices is only the means to the end. C.f. Robert Frost's poem Design: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/design http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/design
    - nickbauman 12y ago
      Evolution doesn't plan. Design that shapes behavior assumes a god-like view of the world which employed by humans always arrogates to the point of overreaching. For design to be humane, it is behavior that shapes design, not the other way around.

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leviathan 12y ago

Back in the days I worked a while as a web designer, spent my days in Photoshop, learned all the shortcuts. So I was showing the design to this client who always wanted to modify things, and he said he doesn't like the orange a lot and if we can tweak it. I had a red layer, and a yellow layer over it with opacity, so I clicked on the yellow layer, and started pressing random numbers on the numpad (pressing numbers changes the value of the layer's opacity) so the colors were jumping randomly from red to orange to yellow and the hues in between, finally I settled back on the exact value that was before, and that seemed to satisfy the client. The color was now perfect.

bornon5 12y ago
Similar thing happened to me - a client didn't like a shade of blue I was using, even though it was the exact shade she had told me to use. She then sent me a PowerPoint file with just a blue box in it and told me to use that blue instead. Of course it was the exact same blue as before. I re-sent her the file, and she immediately transmitted her enthusiastic approval.
- Terr_ 12y ago
  "What do you mean, calibrate my monitor color?"

jlebar 12y ago

If you haven't read this before, I highly recommend: http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

jallmann 12y ago
...That guy is just an asshole. Not funny at all. He should just have declined instead of screwing around and wasting everybody's time.
- philh 12y ago
  I found it a little funny, but not funny enough to justify being that level of asshole.
  - eigenvector 12y ago
    It's satire. He didn't actually write this and there is no missing cat.
    - jallmann 12y ago
      Not so sure about that [1]: > Q: Are your articles (like Missing Missy), real emails? > A: The email articles are verbatim ... Even if his pieces are meant to be satire, IMO it's not particularly good satire. To each his own, I guess. [1] http://live.washingtonpost.com/david-thorne-internet-is-a-playground.html http://live.washingtonpost.com/david-thorne-internet-is-a-pl...
      - philh 12y ago
        I'm curious why this was downvoted?
        eigenvector 12y ago
        Not sure, but that interview is satirical too...