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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I usually start with one design, in what I call the "thrashing" stage. I call it this even when I'm explaining the process to the client, and let him know that this design may be ugly, may be not, what it is is me "thrashing about wildly, trying to find some likeable concepts." I may do one or two quick "thrashes" like this, and let the client know that I expect them to help me by picking bits and pieces out of these that they like, scrollbars from this, colors from that, layout from here, etc... Once I do my thrashes and we now have something to talk about, I pick my (and their) favorite bits and start sketching. I really don't expect to do more than one, really, with tweaks and enhancements along the way. I do that first real sketch, somewhat rough, and ask, "good? no good?" (I post my work online as soon as I do it. This way the client can watch the progress and make comments as we go, rather than keeping it secret and then springing it on them. I know lots of other freelancers who don't work this way, but this is me.) I expect three major revisions of this during this stage, and make it clear that if we want to take a "left turn" into another design halfway through this, we're back to thrashing again. Since this part of the design has definite billable hours associated with it, I'll make it clear at the point of changing that this part is going to cost that much all over again, nearly! Hmm, this is the second thread along these lines that should have been in Outpatient Conselling but found it's way here! I like talking about this stuff, and think it's one of the more valuable things we can share on this board, so I think I'll move that forum up into Maximum Security and start fishing for other moderators for it. Would anyone like to take my place as Moderator for the Site Review section? I've been too busy to doa great job of it, and I'd like to devote more time to this other area. Lemme know. (I'll be moving this thread, and others, soon, so look for it there!) Your pal, -doc- [url=http://www.ozones.com/] [img]http://www.ozoneasylum.com/examples/ozoneSIGc.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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