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Originally posted by eroswebmaster
This is not about "creativity" or lack of. This is about communication...pure plain and simple.
You can't really compare that to what we do here.
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I disagree. Of course there is a difference between - for example - spending $20,000 on a logo and $1,000 on a complete site design, but a webmaster is expecting a design that will be functional: ie drive sales and/or traffic. If a design fails to do that, it doesn't matter how pretty or cool it looks, or how cheap it is, it is a waste of money.
Although there are exceptions such as if a site belongs to an unusual niche or if a webmaster has very specific requirements, in this business it should make it possible to do a comparable job without the resources you mentioned, The reason being that many (successful) adult designers work in the same market most, if not all of the time. Therefore they don't have to do research separately for each client.
I'm not saying that input from the client is a bad thing: only that a designer shouldn't depend on it for good results.
If right from the off a designer asks me to point him at a design I like, or enquires what color I want, I look for a polite way to end the conversation. And with your experience, you must admit that the majority of site designs show very little understanding of the role of design in marketing.