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7 Questions to Ask From Clients Prior Accepting a Designing Project

Uroosa Rafi
Web Designing is an art, and so is what a client presumes when he or she comes to you to get their project designed.

Customer's Expectations

When clients meet designers, they have pretty high expectations and a vague but creative design in their heads, which they expect from you to bring into reality. An experienced and expert web designer knows the struggles he has to face to provide a design that is influencing, impacting and has the power to captivate audiences’ heart.

7 Questions a Designer Must Ask Before Accepting a Designing Project:

1. Describe Your Business

It will give you an insight into how the customers look at their brand. When you give your customers more chances to explain about themselves, it builds a trustworthy and friendly relationship among you and your clients, which would let them to open up and explain in easier words as to what they are expecting from you as a logo designer.

2. What Are the Primary Goals of Your Site?

Asking the client about what they wish to accomplish in future, will help a logo designer to learn about the future goals of the company.

3. Who are Your Competitors?

It is time to explore the competitors. Looking at the competitor’s website will give you and your client a more transparent and precised idea to attract the targeted audience.

Logo Design as a Marketing tool

4. What Websites do you like and why?

Knowing about what your clients prefer in other web designs and why, will help you big time because it will allow you to enter in their brain and think just like them. As a result, you will be able to come up with designs that would captivate their attention at the very first sight. Or directly ask your customer about the dos and don’ts.

5. Who Exactly Are Your Targeted Audiences?

You would be surprised to see mostly the new entrepreneurs have no clear-cut idea about their targeted audience. To them, everyone would be their target audience. In such cases ask them to specify audience based on the personality trait of their brand.

6. What Features Do You Want Your Website to Have?

Tell your clients what would go best for their website and what will create confusion. For instance, you could always give your clients suggestions like, if they want, they can add a shopping cart on the side, a social media implementation, email collection, photo galleries, the comments section, a quick contact form, or quote request, etc.

7. What Are Your Expectations From Us?

Through this technique, you won’t just learn the sort of work they demand, but the amount they are agreeing to pay. It is very essential to discuss the time-span they expect in which you would provide the project, and the number of revisions you would offer.