Hot Gossip > The 6 Point Guide to Reducing your Design Bill
Here are 5 tips to help reduce your design bill and maintain your designer's sanity.
1. Clearly define your project
Before briefing your designer, ensure you have clearly defined the scope, expectations, responsibilities and goals for the project.
2. Brief your project team
When you have done this, provide the information to your designer and others involved in the project. This way both you and your designer know why you are producing the work, how you will measure its success, and who is responsible for what and when.
3. Provide all project resources
Provide any copy, images and logos in suitable formats as discussed with your designer. Time spent locating or chasing a client up for suitable material can eat into budget that is better spent directly on the design.
4. Proof carefully
Check all proofs carefully and thoroughly. Have a ‘fresh eye’ check the job - someone who has not seen it before. Do this early in the proofing stages. You'll be amazed how seemingly 'obvious' mistakes can be missed.
5. Consolidate feedback
Consolidate all your changes in a written brief and channel it back to your designer through one person. Bombarding them with drip feed changes from 2 or 3 people makes a project more prone to error and soaks up project management time.
6. Refer back to your brief
At key stages refer back to the brief you developed in point 1. You will be more easily able to spot any inconsistencies and have them corrected before it becomes too late or costly to do so.
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