{"id":1747,"date":"2012-01-11T21:24:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2012-12-23T19:04:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T18:04:48","slug":"the-industry-trend-leaving-client-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/01\/11\/the-industry-trend-leaving-client-work\/","title":{"rendered":"The industry trend: Leaving client work"},"content":{"rendered":"

As my fellow colleague designer Goran Peuc<\/a> wrote in his recent article, the web industry understanding gap between experts in the field and the rest of us<\/a> is growing exponentially. He was right when he said that it was very difficult to apply the user-centric approach and the general industry knowledge on a client\u2019s project within short time-span of two or three months (why yes, that\u2019s fairly short for a serious UX work).<\/p>\n

It takes time to educate companies. Even if you could educate them, that will not change the company culture. In most companies even the in-house web experts are fighting against windmills most of the time. <\/p>\n

We, the people in web industry are extremely passionate. That\u2019s why we are pushing so hard to bring the best possible results to our employers or clients.<\/p>\n

Sometimes when we don\u2019t receive enough affection and recognition back, we feel exhausted and tired. Of course, a pat on the back is nice, but it\u2019s not enough. We really need to see the result of our effort. If we had done our part the best we could, we would have expected no less from other parties involved in the process. That\u2019s because most of the people in our industry have developed a strong sense of purpose.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just speculating here, but could it be that the primary reason for leaving companies and client work has something to do with the outcomes that \u2014 despite all our efforts \u2014 didn\u2019t turn exactly as we planned?<\/p>\n

Being your own boss means having the whole process under your control and opportunity to apply an insane level of obsession over the tiniest details, a typical tendency of top experts in the field. I wonder what would happen if all the best of breed experts started building their own brands.<\/p>\n

A major shift perhaps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As my fellow colleague designer Goran Peuc wrote in his recent article, the web industry understanding gap between experts in the field and the rest of us is growing exponentially. He was right when he said that it was very difficult to apply the user-centric approach and the general industry knowledge on a client\u2019s project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}