I love pop-ups. Whenever they appear, I try my reacting time to close them or the entire page (or even shut down the entire browser). I’m quick in this, very quick. Or as an alternative, I try to block them. Unfortunately it won’t always work.
It’s one of the crap Brad Frost mentioned in a pretty cool talk I recently watched. Let me dig it out:
As a wrapping up for those haven’t got the time watching this:
Do you really believe, that I’m stupid? Do you really think I am not able to decide myself at what point I want to have some extra information?
I can imagine, but the customer happens to be king…
So you’re not the designer? Not the craftsman preventing your client from crap?
Well then, shit happens. In my world, king client hires me to be told, advised and taught. Cause this is my job and his expectation!!! And in 99.9% my client will accept my arguments - and nobody will lose one’s face. If not it even happens that we can’t work together.
Do think its possible to make it close the pop up window?
Certainly but first can you outline for me what this pop-up is supposed to be doing ie its function.
If it is just to annoy your visitor then I totally agree with Thomas but if if there is a valid reason then maybe there is a better way to implement it.
As far as I understand is it a temporary message that visitors are required to read and it has something to do with a change in the services of the commpany
As far as I understand is it a temporary message that visitors are required to read and it has something to do with a change in the services of the commpany
Yes I’m hired as the designer and I have my input, but if the client is adamant about their own design, I’d rather just suck it up and do the job, that way I keep a client for the future.
In my world it’s becoming a luxury to have control of things. I can suggest, but in the end it’s the client paying their money and if what they think is right, it goes. Sometimes down the line they realise they weren’t right and I get to change it, so be it, more money for me.
Over the years I’ve done a few sites I’m not proud of (Delta Dave - the lime green and pink one, with a comic sans typeface!!), but I still have her as a fairly lucrative client through bowing to her wishes initially.
Trev
On 12 Oct 2015, at 09:46, Thomas Kimmich email@hidden wrote:
I can imagine, but the customer happens to be king…
So you’re not the designer? Not the craftsman preventing your client from crap?
Well then, shit happens. In my world, king client hires me to be told, advised and taught. Cause this is my job and his expectation!!! And in 99.9% my client will accept my arguments - and nobody will lose one’s face. If not it even happens that we can’t work together.
It’s easy to dislike popups - especially as a user/viewer and/or a designer. But as a contractor or employee, a popup is the job/income - kind of like being a sanitary engineer (garbage man) - someone has to do it.