I have this recurring nightmare, only I'm always awake. I've just done a working prototype from a comp that's been 20,000 revisions to get it perfectly balanced.
Client: "This is great. Perfect."
Ten minutes later in the conversation.
Client: "Now the rest of the pages are going to be at least 3 or 4 times as long as this one."
Yet I never seem to learn!
Another of my favorites is this.
Client: "I'm going to want 50 to 100 pictures on most of these pages"
or
Client: "This picture is really blur…
- Okay, I had to add these even though I wasn't going to. A job interview 2 years ago: Lead developer/prospective boss: "We need somebody who knows SGML, oh and we do everything in FrontPage." And another interview more recently. After taking a full day off of my contracting job, and spending hours with HR, and without looking at any work samples... Art Director: "So we don't really have a position at the moment. We were just calling some people to see if anyone really knocked our socks off." &l…
- I have this client, and I just don't have the heart to tell him that it's not spelled "computor."…
- PM: "Can't you just put some graphical thingies on it?"…