My friend sent this to me and I found it absolutely funny so I want to share it here: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell I am sure pro web designers have experienced this one way or another
Lawlz someone sent me that one today via MSN. ++ Don't forget his FaceSpace page! There are some excellent web dev comics at The Brads too.
I laughed really hard for about two minutes. That's gotta be the best comic about web designs out there. I also shared it on facebook. Gosh! I'm so bookmarking that website.
My girlfriend showed me this comic a few days ago and it was scary how real to life it is. I've had everything in there happen to me...literally everything.
Ty but yes even the dog...my girlfriend has had that experience too. They could have at least picked a better dog than a sharpei...
As much as i enjoyed this comic, yet it sterotypes all clients and is incorrect. Some of us have better sense than those with all the tools. Sometimes designers are just awesome, they come up with beautiful layouts in their first attempt and sometimes designer don't even understand the aesthetics of design and what client actually wants, this often results into bad layouts.
Right. Sometimes I feel quite ashamed to tell others that a site is designed by me, which is actually done by the customer...
I don't include those in anything which might be labeled a "portfolio". This includes the client I had who really, really wanted a marquee on his main page of his business until a friend of his (thank god) pointed out how old-fashioned that was and would make his business look very unhip. I think it was a web developer's experiences, shared with and appreciated by other web developers... being a comic, it's pretty much required to make stereotypes, which makes the little comments like "this really happened to me" all the scarier. If a designer comes up with an incredibly bad layout, there's no reason to beat around the bush: the designer sucks balls. But designers come in all different types. Me, I try very hard to avoid doing design work. I'd much rather the client present me with a PhotoChop of what s/he wants, and I'll just code it. Coding's easier than designing.
Like the other designers in here said it's amazing how realistic that is. It's always a shame to have something that you've designed turn into a train wreck because the client thinks they can design to. What they don't realize is that there are other factors that are included in a site design, ie. usability, etc. I mean you wouldn't go to a car mechanic and tell him how to fix your car would you. Same principle applies here.