Every designer, artist, and customer/client (if your business is uppity enough) relations person at one point in their career has been in the place of that lady pictured below.
Preparing to properly manage the client's expectations.
Yes, my life could be much worse. However, client relations could be a whole lot better.
I's a dez-eyener now!!! hurrr hurr durr hurr derp derp!
Clients put food on my table (unless they are friends and family looking for the hookup on jobs I would normally charge twice of what they are expecting to pay), and I am appreciative of the money they pay me. Clients, well versed in the ‘internets [sic] sciences’ are sweethearts, angels, and a rarity. However, I get clients that make me wonder if the pay is worth the hell they put me through. I have had clients photoshop via emails, squabble over using “and” or “&”, fail to understand that the majority of computer users do not have the same high resolution widescreen monitors that make my comps look “very tiny”, believe that HEX values can be easily translated from Microsoft Outlook’s version of the text color “PINK“, and make drastic changes to the creative at the last moment before the design is sent to development and launched.
If you work at an agency, and you are guilty of any of those categories, please jump off a cliff. The world would be a better place.
The photo is from this brilliant 9 panel comic titled How a Web Design Goes to Hell [TheOatmeal.com].