Changes
Everyone wants to have their say in a design project no matter what the project is. And everything has ideas for changes that should or need to be made. Just because someone thinks there should be a change doesn’t mean that it’s needed or would improve the design.
Changes just to make changes are the worst kind. If anyone feels they need to change something just to put their stamp on it all thy are ultimately doing is hurting the overall concept of the design.
Does this mean all change ideas are bad? Not at all. But I’m talking about the type of changes that are generally meaningless to the design’s overall effectiveness and ends up just being something that someone can point to and say “that was my idea.” Those changes are the useless ones, fight against them.
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