http://infinitewebdesign.com/journal/clients/archives/2006/10/11/good-design-bad-business/ Building Businesses by Building for the Customers Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:56:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://infinitewebdesign.com/journal/clients/archives/2006/10/11/good-design-bad-business/comment-page-1/#comment-5614 Customer Centered Businesses » Good Design IS Good Business Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:44:00 +0000 http://infinitewebdesign.com/journal/clients/archives/2006/10/11/good-design-bad-business/#comment-5614 [...] Brad posed the question of whether spending money for quality design work is a good business decision. I’ve been thinking on that this week and in my biased opinion it absolutely, without question, depends on the business and project in question. You must work within the constraints given to you, including deadlines and budgets. Embracing constraints is a lesson that every designer must learn in order to be successful in business. Businesses who are looking to hire and work with designers must clearly communicate deadlines and budgets and then the designer must determine if they are realistic and if they can work with those constraints. Sometimes this requires some compromise on the project plan and sometimes it will not be worth the effort and it’s best to simply turn a project down. [...] [...] Brad posed the question of whether spending money for quality design work is a good business decision. I’ve been thinking on that this week and in my biased opinion it absolutely, without question, depends on the business and project in question. You must work within the constraints given to you, including deadlines and budgets. Embracing constraints is a lesson that every designer must learn in order to be successful in business. Businesses who are looking to hire and work with designers must clearly communicate deadlines and budgets and then the designer must determine if they are realistic and if they can work with those constraints. Sometimes this requires some compromise on the project plan and sometimes it will not be worth the effort and it’s best to simply turn a project down. [...]

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