Mastering Client-Designer Collaboration: The Pants Rule GuideMastering Client-Designer Collaboration: The Pants Rule Guide
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The Pants Rule
A great idea from Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro:
The client knows everything about pants. The designer knows everything about design.
The client understands their customers, their product, and why the pants exist.
The designer understands layout, typography, interaction patterns, and how ideas turn into something people can actually use.
Good work happens when those two kinds of expertise meet.
My job as a designer isn’t just to make something look good.
It’s to translate.
🫆Translate business goals into design decisions.
🫆Translate design decisions into language clients understand.
🫆Translate user problems into solutions.
The client brings the pants.
The designer brings the process.
Communication is what makes the whole thing fit.
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