Friday 13 September 2013

Essential Tips to Get Best from Your Designer

Design that can be either web design, responsive design or logo design, these all demands collaboration and effective communication throughout the process in order to attain positive outcomes. Design is simply just not to know how to use particular software but rather it more to do with coming up with new and creative concepts and ideas that can help business grow. It’s about establishing a brand in the market.

Designers are an important asset for any web development firm. They could be a huge profit-driven factor if you are able to get best results from their skills and creativity. Keeping light environment and striking the right balance between team could give the designers the creative freedom to come up with fresh and unique concepts every time. 

In order to get the most from your designer, following are the few wonderful tips you should consider while working with them:

Make them believe, you trust them

Since you are dealing with your designers’ expertise and skills, make them allow helping you. It is obvious that your designer probably knows more about design and its visual impacts on customers you do. Hence it is necessary that you should give them the same professional courtesy. Obviously directing them and laying out thoughts is one aspect but giving them freedom to come up with designs is normally more useful. Do brainstorming, tell them what inspires you, what results you want, who is your target, share examples of designs you like and just let them come up with concepts based on these discussion. 

Be clear with your needs

It’s often seen that, clients get confused and they keep on changing their requirements specially when it comes to designs. Hence, it is your responsibility to suggest them what will be best for their business. Collect all the details top to bottom, and then discuss with your designer. Keep in mind that you first understood your client requirements so that you can explain in more effective manner to your designer. Here you need to give clear direction including starting point to further process. Give clear explanation to your designer, arrange meeting every time when needed to clear out misunderstanding in design. This will ultimately helps your client to achieve best of the best design from your designer since they clearly know what they have to perform.

Give visual ideas

Since, your designer can probably gauge about what can make design even effective but providing ideas from other websites from other companies you have seen will help your designer identify inspirations you are seeking. Sending visual clues to designer will help them get better visual picture of your preferences.

Give specific feedback

Don’t just say, ‘it is not good’, ‘I don’t like it’ and ‘make it better’ kind of pathetic feedbacks. Such feedbacks are worthless and it is not going to add any value that the designer can work with. If you are not satisfied with layout color and idea, then clearly mention all the elements bugging you. A design can be single minor change away from perfection, so be specific with your needs and help designer locate problems with design by avoiding obscure and deceptive responses.

About Author: Sem Jacobs on the post of senior web developer at KGN Technologies. He also contributes in marketing team of KGN Technologies as he has excellent marketing skills and knowledge. KGN Technologies is leading magento ecommerce development agency offers robust, reliable and complete magento web solutions.    

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