What makes designers tick?
Think Vitamin offers a decent read in their everthing you wanted to know about designers article. While it’s primarily talking about web designers, and their love-hate relationship with developers, some of the observations are pretty universal and applicable to any client & designer ‘relationship’.
I found this quotable quote particularly germane for anyone trying to understand what makes a designer ‘tick’.
Because design can be very subjective, everyone feels they can have an opinion on it. When’s the last time an business executive chimed in and told a developer how she should set up her CSS? Designers get that sort of advice all the time and it makes us cranky. We begin with very objective design goals, and then have to translate them into a carefully balanced choreography of subjective design elements. It’s a little reminiscent of a line from the movie Amadeus, when the Emperor comments on Mozart’s latest composition, “Your work is ingenious. It’s quality work. But there are simply too many notes, that’s all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.” And Mozart responds, “Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?”
Related: Ten things you’ll need to be a great logo designer.
