From the course: Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements
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Early phases of the creative process
From the course: Running a Design Business: Designer-Client Agreements
Early phases of the creative process
If you haven't done it already, please look at the process breakdown chart from the resources guide. I'll be summarizing what happens in each phase of work. You can take a look at the chart for more specific details. I offer this chart to you as a reference for describing your work to clients; this is the kind of language that you can use in your agreements. I call the first phase of work Project Initiation. Some designers don't think of it as a phase of work, because this is the point at which you're trying to be awarded the project. Figure out what will entail and create a Designer-Client Agreement. So, the goal of this phase is to establish the basic parameters of the project and get a signed contract. I don't recommend that this phase appear in your Designer-Client Agreement, but I do recommend that you track your time and factor it into the next phase of work. What I refer to as phase 2, the Orientation/Research phase is what most designers would typically call phase 1. This is…
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