my real life adventures

The never ending day...

Here I am sitting in my cube... My head is numb and my brain feels like it's
been clubbed.

I am so sick of being creatively cut off at the knees. I can take some
degree of constructive criticism, but it galls me to no end to have my
designs questioned. I rant in my head "do people not know that I've been
doing design work for 10 years?! why don't they respect my designs?!" then
I turn and smile "sure we can try that". I waste my days making things look
ugly because people want to see what it looks like their way.

I try to rationalize with them but they don't listen - they think if you
have to explain the concept then it's too much. I explain because you make
me, because you don't get what the user will in a glance. You can analyze
design all you want, but if you're thinking about what you want you won't
give the user what they need.

There are reasons behind my choices, I don't randomly select colors and
styles and throw them together. Thought should always go into design, if it
doesn't it's not design, it's a mess. If I don't explain the concept you
think I'm pulling things out of my ears, if I do explain you think it's too
much work.

Fine, have it your way but you're going to look bad and then someone's going
to blame it on me.

posted by Heather @ 12:15 PM