15 Lies Clients Tell Designers And What They Actually Mean

Published 9 years ago

Clients are a necessary evil in a designer’s life. As less-than-benevolent entities, they tend to lie, too! Here are 15 lies that clients tell their designer, collected by Creative Market. Even if they’re entirely oblivious to it at the moment of utterance, clients still fib about expectations, payments and, well, everything else. They do so in particular, repetitive patterns, so designers already know the warning signs and stock up on eye rolling for when the need arises.

Joshua Johnson is the blogger on Creative Market who knows the sneaky ways of clients very well. When not posting about the guile and lies of paying customers (who want to snake their way out of the “paying” part), he writes about various designer tools and designer life.

More: creativemarket.com (h/t: designtaxi)

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Martynas Klimas

Writes like a mad dervish, rolls to dodge responsibility, might have bitten the Moon once.

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