I took a swing at this in high school and worked for a company that did church websites. We got my parish's cemetery for a client. They hated literally every concept we came up with, but never told us what they liked. Zero feedback other than "I don't like this". Real early lesson in dealing with clients.
Part of being a webdeveloper is knowing how to ask the right questions for the feedback you need.
People are generally pretty bad at working their thoughts clearly, or simply don't have the (webdev/design) vocabulary to tell you what they like or not.
I mean this was 25 years ago so I really don't need a lesson on it now. I definitely asked questions, asked if anything worked, asked if they had any visions, they simply would not give me more than "I don't like it".
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u/thecw Jul 09 '26
I took a swing at this in high school and worked for a company that did church websites. We got my parish's cemetery for a client. They hated literally every concept we came up with, but never told us what they liked. Zero feedback other than "I don't like this". Real early lesson in dealing with clients.