With every design project comes a series of questions, mostly related to cost, time, and final outcome. What seldom is understood is that design in it's pure form has little to do with time or money but is really about the finished product. Although time is a factor and money is factor the real issue for the client is to define what the end result should be. There are three ways this happens.
- The client states his or her needs in some written form to be communicated to the design team.
- The client may defer to the designer to come up with the design program.
- The design may meander in a series of fits and starts without any real leadership.
So how does one go about Getting Things Designed?
- The program should be defined first and clearly stated with a firm commitment to see it through to completion.
- The schedule should be reasonable but understanding that projects often take longer than we want them to and challenges will arise along the way.
- Money is last not because we don't have a budget but because it should not drive the design away from what was agreed upon in the beginning.
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