Stories from Bad Clients

A friend showed me this great site, "Clients from Hell." It shares experiences designers have had with bad clients. They're hilarious! For all you fellow designers out there, you can probably relate. Here are a few of my favorite stories from the site:


"Client: I want this to have minimal quality.
Me: Do you mean minimalist?
Client: I’ll tell you what I mean."

Client: My logo looks a bit green on my home computer…
Me: Can you please send me a screenshot?
Client: Here you go.
Me: It looks fine here. Are you using a laptop?
Client: I do.
Me: Can you try adjusting the angle between the monitor and your eyes?
Client: Yep, that fixed it. However, you should make it the right colour from any angle.

I had just finished programming a website and started to insert the final, corrected content I received from the client when I noticed two e-mails inside the text that were from their competitor.

Me: Is this content really the final version? It seems like it was a copy/paste from the competitor's  website, judging by the e-mails on it.

Client: Good eye! It actually is copied from our competitor. Just change the e-mails to ours.

"We’d like the banner to be less wide in terms of height, but keep the same length."

And the classic:

"I don’t know what I want, but I’ll know it when I see it."