I swear. There are some days that I really wonder if the job of designer is worth the frustration. It isn’t a difficult job, in fact I’ve often said a trained monkey could probably pull much of this off. It’s just the stupid things that give me pause. Or maybe it’s the number of stupid things that give me pause.

Today’s case in point:
The icon at the above, in full-size glory, is the result of a request from an internal development group. What they asked for was, and I quote, a “small, simple trash can icon.” We went back and forth all morning about the dimensions, then colors, and followed that up with a rousing conversation about the pros and cons of corrugated metal versus metal wire basket styles. That little thing above is the final artwork that got approved.

Long story short, I just spent my day creating a low bandwidth, high-contrast, empty version of the the default trash icon from Apple’s OSX dock.

I just wish they’d requested that from the beginning.

Tags: can, design, trash, web, work