Murhpy’s Law of the Design World
Found on my RSS feeds for the day

  • If you have 10 minutes to print some work before meeting your client, the printer will go out of ink.
  • When the printer goes out of ink and you are in a rush, you don’t have any cartridges to replace it.
  • No matter what the size of the logo is, it’s not big enough for your client.
  • If your WordPress theme validates, you’ll install a plugin that breaks the validation.
  • If you have a lot of work, a client you didn’t hear of for years will call you and be in a hurry.
  • If you don’t make your website work in IE6 before showing it to your client, he will be using IE6.
  • If you have two versions of a photo, you will send the wrong one to the printer.
  • If the text consists of two words, one will be misspelled.
  • Speed. Quality. Affordability.  Pick two.
  • Spell checkers don’t.
  • Grammar checkers don’t, either.
  • Global search-and-replaces aren’t.
  • If three designs are shown to a client, your least favorite will be chosen.
  • If two designs are shown, a third will be requested.  If provided, then one of the first two will be chosen.
  • Creative inspiration flows in inverse proportion to the distance from the studio.
  • No matter how detailed the tech support FAQ is, nobody has ever heard of your problem