Do you tell someone that he has a poorly designed logo?
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I've thought about it sometimes LOL (Not yours).
I did when I was doing reviews for a forum that was designed to do reviews 8 years ago. When members would make a thread asking for the service, they often asked us to give it to them straight. So I did. Often times some of the members said that some of the reviews done by the other reviewers were too honest and never changed a thing. If I had a forum and I wanted it to be the absolute best it could be, I would want the criticism so that I could make the necessary changes and improvement's. That's what reviews should be about.
To be blunt. I think reviewers on promotion sites should be allowed to straight up tell someone if their forum sucks and point out why in detail. Reviews are about change. Reviews are all about being critical and overly opinionated and giving that member a motivation to fix their website. Think of it in terms of Gordon Ramsay on Kitchen Nightmares. That's what a review looks like lol
I often do, publicly if opinions are requested and privately if I think it might help.
Branding on any level is important and a professionally designed logo is so much more important than a custom theme. A logo can help define a company's identity and we all know from recent events how damaging it can be when for example you substitute a cute bird for a nondescript X.
Branding on any level is important and a professionally designed logo is so much more important than a custom theme. A logo can help define a company's identity and we all know from recent events how damaging it can be when for example you substitute a cute bird for a nondescript X.
Constructive feedback is always welcome, but it has to be done in the right way. There's a fine line between being helpful, and being nasty.
The way I was always taught to give difficult feedback is to always give positive feedback first. When you get to things that's aren't so good, it's important to offer a realistic suggestion on how it can be fixed or resolved.
For example, "Your logo is rubbish" is rude, unhelpful, and potentially insulting. Whereas "I like the colour scheme, but the design looks low quality. You could redesign it in Canva and export it as a SVG to make it look crispier" is a more helpful and provides a solution.
The way I was always taught to give difficult feedback is to always give positive feedback first. When you get to things that's aren't so good, it's important to offer a realistic suggestion on how it can be fixed or resolved.
For example, "Your logo is rubbish" is rude, unhelpful, and potentially insulting. Whereas "I like the colour scheme, but the design looks low quality. You could redesign it in Canva and export it as a SVG to make it look crispier" is a more helpful and provides a solution.
Does exporting it as SVG improve the quality? I’ve always exported as PNG and sometimes the quality isn’t great compared to how it appears on Canva but I never really researched it to fix it.
I don’t tell them their logo is horrible but if asked for feedback, I’ll tell them in a constructive way. A bad logo can put me off signing up, it’s usually why I get a professional designer to design mine (except for Storyturner, I’ll be getting a professional one soon enough but invested the money elsewhere!)
Only Canva Pro can export to SVG.
SVG is great for logos, but mostly for the really flat looking ones. If it's complex, then PNG is the way to go. SVG isn't for photo looking graphics, just the simpler ones.
I will admit, as much as I may see someone's logo and it not be something I think is good, I will not go straight ahead and just tell them that it's awful but I may mention some things such as maybe suggesting changes.
Sometimes even though a logo does not look good to me, it may look good to the person who owns the site so I never want to look rude.
Sometimes even though a logo does not look good to me, it may look good to the person who owns the site so I never want to look rude.
Plus, art can be subjective. Sometimes the execution could be done better, but the look might appeal to some people more than others.
Take Elon Musk's new X logo. It's hideous. But he likes it LOL
Exactly!
honestly do not know how he thought that was good but he either went for it because he liked it or because it was expensive to flex his funds LOL either way, that is a good example to explain the someone liking something and someone else not and being careful how you go about telling someone so you do not offend them 🙂
Exactly!
OR he went cheap and designed it himself in Canva LOL I should go look and see if it's clip art, what do you think?
I never actually thought of that to be honest LOL would be interesting to know though 🙂 I'd definitely take a look for sure!
Back when I used to do forum/website reviews, I would make it a point to point out any and all things that could help someone better their project. Constructive criticism is always beneficial in any project that is looking for public opinion/suggestions.
How did you word things?
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It is hard to tell people things like that, mostly if they use it at the moment. Reasons are few. First of all, maybe he is unable to find a person who will do it for him in a good way so he did it alone and it came out bad. So, he simply can't change it at the moment and your comment will change nothing. Second thing is that maybe he really likes it, tastes are different, so if you tell him/her that, he may become upset.
It's good to be honest, having constructive criticism can help an admin make their forum better. A forum should have a good logo, I'd simply point out the flaws with the logo. I used to be part of the review team here, there were times I would have to critique a site's appearance.
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