So I was showing the design to this client who always wanted to modify things, and he said he doesn't like the orange a lot and if we can tweak it. I had a red layer, and a yellow layer over it with opacity, so I clicked on the yellow layer, and started pressing random numbers on the numpad (pressing numbers changes the value of the layer's opacity) so the colors were jumping randomly from red to orange to yellow and the hues in between, finally I settled back on the exact value that was before, and that seemed to satisfy the client. The color was now perfect.
If we take this at face value, she could have asked more nicely, and he could also have followed the "F you, pay me" principle, and just quoted her a figure.
Had he said, "I'd be happy to make you a poster for your cat. I will be able to do it with an hour's work, for which I will bill you $80", he would not have wasted her time, and she could have made something herself in her word processor. (Or, she'd have said, "Awesome, here's eighty bucks".)
> Q: Are your articles (like Missing Missy), real emails?
> A: The email articles are verbatim ...
Even if his pieces are meant to be satire, IMO it's not particularly good satire. To each his own, I guess.
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(Not that I really care to know; this is getting way off-topic.)
"Could you make the design pop a bit more?"
> I also don't know how to design websites based on someone else's feelings.
That's what design is, so if you're not doing that then you're probably not a designer.
The word design literally means 'fate', i.e. the absence of free will. Shaping behavior is the point, making studied choices is only the means to the end.
C.f. Robert Frost's poem Design:
I'd use them to bury the meddling fuckers who ask for this shit.