Case #002: The Canva Intervention
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Client | Growing company, name withheld |
| Deliverable | Launch flyer, approved Tuesday |
| Revisions | 1 (theirs) |
| Diagnosis | Unsupervised Creativity |
The consultation
The Client: "I made a few changes to the design you sent."
The Designer: "What kind of changes?"
The Client: "Just cleaned it up a little."
The outcome
The designer opens the file. The font has changed. The colours have changed. The logo has been stretched. The spacing is gone. There are three new clip-art icons and a drop shadow on the drop shadow.
Clinical notes
Canva is a tool. Not a qualification. "Can you clean it up?" is the most expensive sentence in design: it means "please rebuild the thing I took apart, and make it look like my version."
Recommended treatment: please don't touch the file.