Comments on: Design Presentation — Style vs. Accuracy http://www.refreshcleveland.org/2008/08/17/design-presentation-style-vs-accuracy/ Refreshing the web, one city at a time Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:01:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Adam http://www.refreshcleveland.org/2008/08/17/design-presentation-style-vs-accuracy/#comment-2255 Adam Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:22:08 +0000 http://www.refreshcleveland.org/?p=64#comment-2255 I understand your frustration with the anecdote you'd described - and while I haven't had quite the same experience, I have had one that's similar and also befuddled me. We were working on a new site for a client - very minimal stuff, as they were not very tech savvy - and to relay some edits, they literally printed out every page and then commented on the way the information looked on the printed page. Not that bad you say? Here's the kicker - they were making design comments on what was essentially (at this point) the print style sheet! Stuff like "This header is redundant," (it was the Title Tag and the H1), or "I don't like the spacing between these images," (on the completely unstyled printout.)" It was like they'd almost never even looked at the styled site on-screen! Like I said - not exactly the same, but another case of "on-the-page/on-the-screen" not matching up and causing confusion. I understand your frustration with the anecdote you’d described - and while I haven’t had quite the same experience, I have had one that’s similar and also befuddled me. We were working on a new site for a client - very minimal stuff, as they were not very tech savvy - and to relay some edits, they literally printed out every page and then commented on the way the information looked on the printed page. Not that bad you say? Here’s the kicker - they were making design comments on what was essentially (at this point) the print style sheet! Stuff like “This header is redundant,” (it was the Title Tag and the H1), or “I don’t like the spacing between these images,” (on the completely unstyled printout.)” It was like they’d almost never even looked at the styled site on-screen! Like I said - not exactly the same, but another case of “on-the-page/on-the-screen” not matching up and causing confusion.

]]> By: David Mead http://www.refreshcleveland.org/2008/08/17/design-presentation-style-vs-accuracy/#comment-2242 David Mead Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:16:19 +0000 http://www.refreshcleveland.org/?p=64#comment-2242 Thanks for stepping in and posting this Chris. My opinion is the design print out should be as good a quality as possible - It is a presentation after all. Inconsistencies with the rendering can be addressed in subsequent meetings, where you can explain them easily, accompanied by screen-shots in a PDF. Thanks for stepping in and posting this Chris.

My opinion is the design print out should be as good a quality as possible - It is a presentation after all.

Inconsistencies with the rendering can be addressed in subsequent meetings, where you can explain them easily, accompanied by screen-shots in a PDF.

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