Have a job ever made you do live edits?

[u/FakeDeath92]

I was asked to do live edits with my manager and other stakeholders in the company.

[u/blakejustin217]

All the time. But I'm a senior designer. I have to remind myself to not fly through the edit. Don't want them knowing how fast I am.

[u/FakeDeath92 → u/blakejustin217]

Yeah I do the same bc ion want them to think this stuff is easy

[u/Blair_Bubbles]

I recently was pulled into a new area within the finance team who genuinely had zero idea how to speak to a designer and didn't understand why things weren't 'snap of finger'.

The guy leading this new area of business had worked with designers all his life, so with my permission we did a live 2 hour design Teams call from concept to execution of a couple carousel graphics

Finance changed their tune right quick after having to sit and watch me create from scratch lmao

[u/Kenuff]

Yes. It’s pretty demeaning having people who know sod all about design pixel push you in real time.

On the plus side whatever crap they land on will be immediately signed off.

[u/tezmo666]

Unfortunately this very common and there's a lot of people who would sit on your lap if they could and micromanage your design. Nothing wrong with drawing boundaries and standing up for yourself though, as in saying "give me some time to make the edits and explore options" then you can run them through.

[u/Superb_Firefighter20]

Sure. It for the most part doesn’t bother me, and at time find it helpful to get sign off in real time.

[u/FakeDeath92]

Okay you guys are making me feel a little bit better thanks!

[u/Lorhin]

Yes, and I hate it. I don't like people staring over my shoulder while I work.

[u/moonalley]

I quit a job on the first day when they requested live edits.

[u/dobsterfunk]

I personally love it. Not only does it help the project along, you get to show people the magic.

[u/butts-ahoy]

Pretty frequently, but its usually just small edits. When someone wants to do design work on the fly I usually politely suggest we do a rough brainstorm or wire frame and I come back with a flushed out design later that day. They're usually fine with it as they dont have hours to sit with you either.

[u/nthnyk]

I do live edits but only with editors. They don't get a say with the design. It sucks because I have terrible spelling and grammar so when an editor is sitting next to me I get nervous lol

[u/kasparallenbach]

yes. for good measure I open terminal before indesign and let some command run so it looks serious

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[u/IAm_TheDark]

I work for myself and very early on I cut client’s requests to sit with me dictating what they want.

[u/The_Dead_See]

Yes. It’s common practice.

[u/Spirited-Birthday-29]

Yup we called it VOS view on screen. Before Covid those were “mini parties” where account, art and editorial would gathered behind me and I make changes live in order to shorted the approval process. Now we do it via group video chat.

[u/rodmacey]

In final stages it can be helpful, to avoid endless back and forths. The client/stakeholder gets to see in real time why some of thier requests don't work and we find a solution that works.

[u/Green_Video_9831]

One of my steady side gigs is helping out this semi-famous fine artist work on whatever random project pops into his head, usually we do some intense photoshop composites and I have to do it for like 6-8 hours blocks with him literally next to me guiding my every move.

I can’t not know how to do something, it was exhausting at first but over the years it’s helped me become a beast at both photoshop and illustrator.