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484 points OuterVale | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 08:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.193s | source
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Rebuff5007 ◴[08 Dec 25 09:46 UTC] No.46190353[source]▶
This whole post is coming of a bit naive to me... I highly doubt this client is just an inspirational design meeting away from changing their offering and make a massive investment in customer support. I also don't get why a web-development consultant would feel so responsible for a pretty typical business decision.
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oneeyedpigeon ◴[08 Dec 25 09:49 UTC] No.46190381[source]▶
> I also don't get why a web-development consultant would feel so responsible for a pretty typical business decision by their client.

Because they are an expert in their field and the client, presumably, isn't? I can't imagine another field—hairdressing, construction, financial advice—where the client would reject the paid expert's viewpoint so readily and firmly.

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1. graemep ◴[08 Dec 25 10:25 UTC] No.46190659[source]▶
Its bikeshedding - they can see it so they have an opinion on it. I think it happens in many fields where the output is visual - photography, advertising,.....

There is also a general feeling that websites are primarily about design (rather than development) and that the design is aesthetic (rather than UI).

> I can't imagine another field—hairdressing, construction, financial advice

For financial advice, maybe not as readily, but it definitely happens pretty firmly. Lots of people have lost money taking risks they have been warned about. A lot during booms because of FOMO, and a lot because people do not even take advice in the first place.