Comments on: Measuring Success http://www.mostinspired.com/blog/2008/07/12/measuring-success/ Blogging Design Inspiration Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:34:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mubashar Iqbal http://www.mostinspired.com/blog/2008/07/12/measuring-success/comment-page-1/#comment-1099 Mubashar Iqbal Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:59 +0000 http://www.mostinspired.com/blog/2008/07/12/measuring-success/#comment-1099 @ty: you must be happy with what you produce, and i agree some clients know exactly what they want which can make life a little easier, as long as you feel comfortable with what they are requesting, but they will often make this clear before you start. @steven: most inspired has some interesting roots and has come a long way since i started it. you are right about not be able to use some of the standard metrics when reviewing client projects. you also have to keep an eye out for the client changing things after you've finished which can affect the performance as well. @ty: you must be happy with what you produce, and i agree some clients know exactly what they want which can make life a little easier, as long as you feel comfortable with what they are requesting, but they will often make this clear before you start.

@steven: most inspired has some interesting roots and has come a long way since i started it.

you are right about not be able to use some of the standard metrics when reviewing client projects. you also have to keep an eye out for the client changing things after you’ve finished which can affect the performance as well.

]]> By: Steven Snell http://www.mostinspired.com/blog/2008/07/12/measuring-success/comment-page-1/#comment-1088 Steven Snell Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:46:08 +0000 http://www.mostinspired.com/blog/2008/07/12/measuring-success/#comment-1088 That's funny to hear how Most Inspired got started. An additional struggle in some cases with judging the success of client work is that you may not have all of the information available to you like you would if you owned the site. For example traffic stats. Once a project is finished if you're not doing ongoing work, chances are a few months down the road you'll have no way of knowing what type of traffic it's drawing. Same with income. Of course, much of this is out of your control as the designer and not as the site owner. That’s funny to hear how Most Inspired got started.

An additional struggle in some cases with judging the success of client work is that you may not have all of the information available to you like you would if you owned the site. For example traffic stats. Once a project is finished if you’re not doing ongoing work, chances are a few months down the road you’ll have no way of knowing what type of traffic it’s drawing. Same with income. Of course, much of this is out of your control as the designer and not as the site owner.

]]> By: ty.Gossman http://www.mostinspired.com/blog/2008/07/12/measuring-success/comment-page-1/#comment-1079 ty.Gossman Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:48:34 +0000 http://www.mostinspired.com/blog/2008/07/12/measuring-success/#comment-1079 Thanks Mubs. Sometimes my goals as a designer for client sites is simply, do I like the final design outcome. Most of my designs are like a finished piece of art, I enjoy visiting the sites years later. With web standards design being at the forefront of my coding now days that adds another criteria. Did I resort to taking coding shortcuts, such as using tables for specialty data that might have been included where column layouts were necessary beyond the regular design. Using blueprint or some other CSS framework is a possibility, and one I haven't explored when it comes to the grid.css. Finally, did the client request some art changes early on that took me out of my creative path for the project. Sometimes clients have good instincts for what they want, and some times they really manage to hinder any creativity you put in to it. thoughts... Thanks Mubs.
Sometimes my goals as a designer for client sites is simply, do I like the final design outcome.
Most of my designs are like a finished piece of art, I enjoy visiting the sites years later.
With web standards design being at the forefront of my coding now days that adds another criteria. Did I resort to taking coding shortcuts, such as using tables for specialty data that might have been included where column layouts were necessary beyond the regular design.
Using blueprint or some other CSS framework is a possibility, and one I haven’t explored when it comes to the grid.css. Finally, did the client request some art changes early on that took me out of my creative path for the project.
Sometimes clients have good instincts for what they want, and some times they really manage to hinder any creativity you put in to it.
thoughts…

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