Essential skills - user experience
I rediscovered all the delightful benefits of mockups all over again on the latest project I'm working on. To put the story in context: We're a large team of professionals with a range of different skills. One of our team members was a UX/visual designer person who's responsibility was to conduct workshops with the client to develop a UX story and visual designs for the product we're developing. Her participation on the project was time-boxed and limited by a budget. Of course - nobody has an endless budged for anything. If we did, we could keep tinkering with stuff. To cut the story short, we ran into a couple of issues: The client didn't quite like the first cut of proposed visual designs There was a lot of pushback on the details - don't like the colours, don't like this and that, don't like the icons etc. The branding was kind of done but still a bit in the air when it comes to approval with 100% satisfaction UX/visual designer person ran out