One sour spot to moving heaven and earth in a corporate setting is that it becomes expected and taken for granted. Someone is piled with unreasonable deadlines, and as long as the suits on top see results – no matter how shabby – the workload of quantity over quality will continue.

Usually, the answer is to tell the account managers to be more responsible or to hire more designers. But again, if you have a designer who is plowing through the work orders just to get them done on time, even though the work absolutely suffers, the top office managers simply see the work as “getting done”. Why spend the extra cash on another employee and why make the client wait for more than one freaking day?

I’ve seen many friends in the design field become burned out on their jobs when such a business practice becomes the norm.

Thank you once again for a inspiring , very nicely written, article.