And yes, we are overwhelmed about it and get shocked for the obvious corruption involved, the same situation occurs here in a hidden way. I’ve known cases where people charged about U$10.000 just for one image supossed to be the base for a template in a website. At least the chinese website covered development, implementation, maintenance, etc.

Is the most unconfortable, disappointing and frustrating labour experience.

And is one of those moments in wich you see your colegues with a different view, through the eyes of a client, is the point where I understand the  skepticism of some costumers facing the reasons of the designer and I laugh about the contradictions and the shameless ignoranceof other designers. Here I give you some of the common phrases I´ve heard:

• you give a lot of technical reasons I`m not interested in…
• Please move down 2 cms that image
• I want that the design fits on the screen of my computer
• Add a button panel…
• I want that a satellite moves all over the screen when the mouse is over that button…
• I want all the web page in Palatino
• Justify all the text to get an organized design
• Use more color to make the page looks more attractive
• Use shinning colors in the background
• Change the text color to yellow over a pale green background to make iy more eye-catching when you read it

And so on…

That´s why I scream this statement-recrimination to designers; web design is another design speciality , with its self parameters and peculiaritues as can have other area like typography, and no, it is´nt an engineering. Therefore the judgement of the web designer facing a project wich envolves his knowledge area is the most important, even if a designer from another area thinks his opinions are more valuable; his thoughts are nothig more than opinions against the professional grounds of the web designer.

The web designer is not a second rate designer as other designers thinks and is sad that we have to defend from our colegues.