Comments on: Ugly Awards 2005 (And Best Code)

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:45:14 +0000

Have you seen it when the text is on fire? I like that.

Oh and dancing babies, we like dancing babies.

Aside from that i feel there is just ‘something missing’

By: Michael Egan

Michael Egan — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:46:51 +0000

“Chris,

This post is good but it’s not working for me. Maybe something with a little more “pop”, you know? And the letters need to be more contemporary. And the new stuff doesn’t go with what we already signed off on before. I’d like to revisit that before we go any further.

My brother’s friend’s daughter’s soccer coach is in marketing so I don’t mean to critique your awesome design “skills”… but I think if you listen to my requests we’ll have a better product. Plus we want a drop shadow.

So to summarize – start from scratch without getting paid more and then I’ll say yes or no depending on if I’m upset at my high golf score tomorrow.”

If I had the same amount of professionalism as a few of my problem clients I’d nominate them for sure.

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:36:21 +0000

Just to be clear on this, a client has a distinct choice about whether they want to make your life a living hell and this client made that choice. I don’t downtalk clients lightly and in this case it’s hugely warranted. They get the award for the worst client experience in my life.

By: MrFunk

MrFunk — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:26:29 +0000

I’ve got a client I really like. He’s the nicest guy in the world, and I love working with him. Normally we end up with a pretty good product whenever we work together. But there was one occasion he was desperate to have something “different and bright” so I did 3 mockups, a couple of nice ones, and one with bright blue yellow and green. Real bright. Eye-stabbing bright. Primary, lego-construction bright.

Well, we all know where this story is going

By: karmatosed

karmatosed — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:45:44 +0000

I can think of a few candidates from my clients. We have an internal shite list we do and we refer to certain types of bad clients by other bad client’s names – I think we all need a release in our companies from those clients that make you want to labotomise your brain with a usb drive pen.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:32:23 +0000

If it weren’t for the great possibility of burning bridges unnecessarily and bad PR by speaking bad of clients pubicly, this would be an awesome award, cause I’m sure we’ve all been in that boat once or twice.