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It's disrespectful to not only be placed on the backburner, but to be delayed months, and then have your budget inflated. Who knows how many lost potential conversions he missed out on because potential clients were turned off by the original page.
Name and shame.
This is bad.. If your time and planning management is this bad then you shouldn't be in a position to give estimates directly to clients.
It sounds like this project may have been offloaded to other Devs a few times as it was a less priority so some ramp up time for each new handover.
The site looks good but 45k is wild to me.
> Isaac warned that I was smaller than their other clients. A loud alarm should have gone off at this point. There is a mismatch between their processes and expectations and your ones. It won't end well. Same if they were much smaller than you. Then there is a 600+ comments thread from 2022 for all the issues in this redesign. The link is in another comment. If the owner of the site reads this, what was the outcome a…
> I’m not trying to bash the agency here, so I’ll just call them DesignAgency. They’re based in the US, and I found them through a Hacker News monthly freelancer thread. First mistake is hiring people off hackernews. The amount of psuedoprofound pontification on this site is mindblowing. > In my first meeting with DesignAgency’s team, I asked how long they expected my project to take. “How long is a piece of string?”…
The longest I can do is char[tree fiddy]
I've been running a design agency for over a decade and have worked on many redesigns (not involved btw with OP). One common mistake I notice among designers, and something I always emphasize to my team, is the importance of designing for the business, not just for aesthetics. Design is not merely a visual exercise; it's a catalyst for business growth. I can cite numerous instances where simple or even major redesign…
This is a qualified statement that really doesn't add up in my head. No minor change is going to triple your revenue, no matter what ui UX designer says.
> I’m not trying to bash the agency here, so I’ll just call them DesignAgency. They’re based in the US, and I found them through a Hacker News monthly freelancer thread. First mistake is hiring people off hackernews. The amount of psuedoprofound pontification on this site is mindblowing. > In my first meeting with DesignAgency’s team, I asked how long they expected my project to take. “How long is a piece of string?”…
If you don't mind me paraphrasing a bit, I think we can easily win the 2024 Accidental HN Slogan Contest with, "Mindblowing Amounts of Psuedoprofound Pontification.
> I’m not trying to bash the agency here, so I’ll just call them DesignAgency. They’re based in the US, and I found them through a Hacker News monthly freelancer thread. First mistake is hiring people off hackernews. The amount of psuedoprofound pontification on this site is mindblowing. > In my first meeting with DesignAgency’s team, I asked how long they expected my project to take. “How long is a piece of string?”…
It's always a bad faith response. If the requirements are hazy, state that. If the task requires investigation and there's a high degree of exploratory work, state that (and state how long you'd be willing to explore before pivoting). If there's multiple outcomes or options that can lead to wildly different time estimates, disclose that.
Every time I've seen it uttered it meant "you're too dumb to understand what I'm doing and you should just shut up, give me money/time and leave me alone". And it's usually also people who overvalue their own abilities that say it too.
I've been running a design agency for over a decade and have worked on many redesigns (not involved btw with OP). One common mistake I notice among designers, and something I always emphasize to my team, is the importance of designing for the business, not just for aesthetics. Design is not merely a visual exercise; it's a catalyst for business growth. I can cite numerous instances where simple or even major redesign…
> Spending $100,000 and making two minor changes that triple your revenue is an absolute bargain. This is a qualified statement that really doesn't add up in my head. No minor change is going to triple your revenue, no matter what ui UX designer says.