One year as a junior web designer...
January 14, 2008
I'm suppose to write this entry last tuesday, but I was too lazy but here I am now.
I remember when I first started working here, I get scared for the littlest thing. I used to finish work as fast as I can and then ask for more work to do. My boss was impressed by my speed and quality. Cuz usually when you do something fast, chances are you will make some mistakes. My job is based on creativity for the most part. So sometimes it's not abt making mistakes, it's abt having the design that everybody likes.
One thing that's really important about this job is "compromise". You know how some designers/artists that are so kin on having their original own design that they won't listen to anybody and always think they are right? well that's not gonna happen in this industry. It's very depressing when you created something you believe is so perfect and pretty but your client just doesn't agree w/ you. Usually when things are perfect in a picture, anything u alter would destroy the whole piece. That's what I have to go thru every single time when I create a website.
My boss usually agrees w/ my design 99.9% of the time and everyone else in our team thinks it's good. But once I showed it to the client, they would ask us to change this and that which in turns will actually make the interface looks uglier in our terms but prettier on theirs.
What does a junior web designer got to do in situations like these? Nothing other than follow instructions. No matter how much I disagree w/ the clients, I can't express it and I will have to change my design into something I absolutely hate. So the process of creating the interface went from loving it to hating it and stop caring.
If one day, when I actually get some say
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