23
Aug
01:46 PM

How to ruin a web design

I appreciate when clients come to me with their ideas, but once I start work, I prefer they not get too involved. But how do I say this without sounding insulting?

When too many people get involved in the creative process, especially modifying and tweaking a design, they usually create something horrendous: originality and cohesion are sacrificed for a bland pastiche of blinking graphics and sloppy markup.

Here’s a great article that describes the inverse relationships in web design between time and number of “designers” involved and quality of the final product.