How to communicate your Ideas to your medical website designer?
Most difficult part in hiring a medical website designer is mainly the communication, because you and medical web designer speak the details of website in different language. So in start you spend some time in internet surfing and find the right medical website designer to hire with believe that this medical website designer would design extraordinary website which will meet your requirements and will go beyond your expectation level.
But now starts the most challenging and most frustrating part, because now you have to explain the layout design that you have in your mind to your medical web designer. Because now putting your mentally pictured layout to words would be rather difficult task. And if you would not be able to communicate properly to your medical web designer in his own professional language then he will not be able to use his talent to achieve your desired design.
Mainly any of the following situations you may face:
1. You know about the content of your website that you want but no idea of the way how to present it to user.
2. You know about the content and layout of the desired website in your mind but don't know how to implement it.
In both of the case above explain your thoughts to your medical web designer. But main solution is that give your medical website designer complete freedom of action regarding web design based solely on the content. I do think that telling about the category of the medical website design like telling either it is heart physician's website, or Rheumatologic physician's website or etc. rather than telling the color schema, header etc of the website.
And if you face any of the problems discussed above then I would suggest that you would have to come with some links of websites that has all features that you want or have look like the website that you want, to the medical website designer. So if you provide more than one links of the websites that matches your desire to the medical website designer then it would be much better to express your intention without using any technical terms. There is chance that you would not find all of your required features in one website already built so use several number of websites to provide examples of your needs. So it's better to do research a little bit at start rather than wasting a lot of time to describe your point to your medical website designer.
At the same time I will elaborate main point that with expressing your point to the medical website designer, you must also have much patience to listen to your web designer as well. And you should not finish any part of your conversation without having strong understanding that you and designer both are in the same direction.
As you have hired a professional medical website designer because of your interest in professional looking website that you could not do it yourself, so trust the designer's judgment when he tells you that something would not work or isn't the best way to fulfill your goals. Now I would explain that it is best if you want that your medical website designer gets your approval on each step so that you can tell them necessary changes to achieve your required good looking professional medical website. And at that stage if you don't like component's look and want its look to be changed then tell them immediately rather than waiting up to completion of everything and then decide that this component is not looking so good. So it is better to tell the designer about the necessary changes during the process the website is being built.
When you and medical website designer are agreed on the needs that you want then designer gives a price quote. Then simple modifications and bug fixes are included in the price but if you want major revision or modification then it may not include in the price. So your agreement should properly state which things are revisions rather than fix and how you can make after delivery without incurring additional costs.
But now starts the most challenging and most frustrating part, because now you have to explain the layout design that you have in your mind to your medical web designer. Because now putting your mentally pictured layout to words would be rather difficult task. And if you would not be able to communicate properly to your medical web designer in his own professional language then he will not be able to use his talent to achieve your desired design.
Mainly any of the following situations you may face:
1. You know about the content of your website that you want but no idea of the way how to present it to user.
2. You know about the content and layout of the desired website in your mind but don't know how to implement it.
In both of the case above explain your thoughts to your medical web designer. But main solution is that give your medical website designer complete freedom of action regarding web design based solely on the content. I do think that telling about the category of the medical website design like telling either it is heart physician's website, or Rheumatologic physician's website or etc. rather than telling the color schema, header etc of the website.
And if you face any of the problems discussed above then I would suggest that you would have to come with some links of websites that has all features that you want or have look like the website that you want, to the medical website designer. So if you provide more than one links of the websites that matches your desire to the medical website designer then it would be much better to express your intention without using any technical terms. There is chance that you would not find all of your required features in one website already built so use several number of websites to provide examples of your needs. So it's better to do research a little bit at start rather than wasting a lot of time to describe your point to your medical website designer.
At the same time I will elaborate main point that with expressing your point to the medical website designer, you must also have much patience to listen to your web designer as well. And you should not finish any part of your conversation without having strong understanding that you and designer both are in the same direction.
As you have hired a professional medical website designer because of your interest in professional looking website that you could not do it yourself, so trust the designer's judgment when he tells you that something would not work or isn't the best way to fulfill your goals. Now I would explain that it is best if you want that your medical website designer gets your approval on each step so that you can tell them necessary changes to achieve your required good looking professional medical website. And at that stage if you don't like component's look and want its look to be changed then tell them immediately rather than waiting up to completion of everything and then decide that this component is not looking so good. So it is better to tell the designer about the necessary changes during the process the website is being built.
When you and medical website designer are agreed on the needs that you want then designer gives a price quote. Then simple modifications and bug fixes are included in the price but if you want major revision or modification then it may not include in the price. So your agreement should properly state which things are revisions rather than fix and how you can make after delivery without incurring additional costs.
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