Last Updated: 2024-11-21

I made a draft design with F and then she pressured me to put it into production ASAP.

However, once it was online, she took feedback from others and wanted changes.

What's more, P didn't respond to the initial request for feedback. Only once it was online did he ask for a change.

The main thing I regret was not clarifying my contribution philosophy for this pro-bono project:

• I am happy to help out and get things done to a normal standard but I absolutely will not entertain other people's perfectionism. As Voltaire, Confucious and Shakespeare have said in their various ways — the perfect is the enemy of the good.
• I will ask for feedback at certain stages when it's cheap (i.e. doesn't take a lot of my time) to make changes. But after that point, it takes me 5-10 times as long to make a change. So, aside from bugs, no changes are to be made after this point.

Perhaps part of the problem was also that the image draft I sent wasn't interactive and easily shareable the same way the website had been. This suggests looking for more interactive ways to get early feedback.