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I was recently asked how to handle client requests that are ‘bad’ for usability or just bad in general.

A friend of mine has a client who asked her to do a site that is really, really bad. The client sent an example url of what they are looking for –wow, not good at all.   So she gave them part of what they wanted - a busy page background, but with nice white rounded corners for the main content and text. The look she had was clean and easy to read. Now they come back to her and say that they like it but could she please get rid of the white background and just tile the background image?

So, what to do? My advice to her, do exactly what the client wants. I think she did the right thing - giving the client a little bit of what they were after at first.  If the client keeps pushing toward terrible, she cannot stop it.   She should remove her name from the site and never, ever take credit (or blame) for it.

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