Being a web designer how many web designs have you created
? How many designs or mockups have you presented in front of a client? Do you remember how many were approved and how many got rejected? If you have been into this line even for a year I am sure you must be having a lot of website designs under your wings. But have you ever taken out time to look back to all your designs after presenting them to your clients, irrespective of them being accepted or rejected?
Designers specifically good ones just love to create new designs; it is not only about a job that feeds them it is more of a passion, zeal to discover new things out of their creativity.
Coming up with unique and new designs is commendable. This is how you differentiate a talented web designer from a not so knowledgeable one. But creating an entirely new design is meticulously slow. A professional web designer can come up with an attractive web design in just about 4 hours. You give them some extra time and theyll make a kick ass design. But what if they are not given any time to prepare one, than what can they do? The answer to it is recycle an already exisiting design.
You can go back to all your collection of designs and pick one which wasnt selected by your client. Implement on it all the necessary changes and modifications, and there you go you have a brand new website design. The best part about it is that it will take only an hour and a half or maybe lesser to do it.
But a Web Designer must be very clear on this thing that recycling a web design is entirely different from copying a web design. Recycling is carrying out changes in one of your previously rejected design. There are very minute possibilities that it can get rejected back. It is so because what looks good to me might not please your eyes and vice versa. Same is in the case of website designs too. Therefore there are very high possibilities of it being accepted from the client.
Benefits of recycling designs:
Recycling a website design accumulates you a lot of time.
It eliminates blockages in the production.
When not to recycle designs:
If you client is not in a hurry and specifically asked for a new design.
If that particular design is owned by your client, be it a mockup too.
If you have plenty of time to create a new one.
Recycling is one way to which is very cost effective. This way you can add value to your rejected designs and provide your client with many mock ups to choose from.