Daretobedifferent Barbara Carneiro can be a BLUFF as a designer. Beware!
Barbara has a huge list of amazing feedback at ELANCE, but that can be deceiving.
I chose her for it and for announcing in her site: http://www.barbaracarneiro.com/original_designs.htm ORIGINALITY!
She promises innovation, originality, research on your target and on the job, professional treatment, she has a WARNING! ORIGINAL WEB DESIGN, she promises to be different, a web design you will find nowhere else, she promises an original web page that will be designed specifically for you or your company, but she does not always deliver. I am highly disappointed and feel she was a fraud! You will see why! If you are about to hire her work, see what she did for me first.
I hire her for a simple task: A site design for a DRIVING SCHOOL. All I wanted was what she announces: originality and difference.
I gave her the SCHOOL LOGO and asked her to make something wild (even radical) with loads oif bright colors (orange, turquoise, red, yellow: BRIGHT AND YOUTHFUL COLORS: after all the young people are the main ones that need to take the license to drive!
So I asked her to do it attractive to just turned 18 y. Olds dying for freedom and independence. (I kept my emails but they are written in portuguese: will show them to whom may ask)
Hours later she email me the "first drawing": it was 25 october
When I said I found it too conventional, and wanted something more radical and innovating, she was very upset! She said NOBODY ever rejected one drawing before!
I said that I was sorry but had asked for something wild and young and daring and I thought that set up and design to be very conventional and ask her to take her time and inspire herself to make me something with her quality as announced.
Only on 13 november she gave me the "second drawing" I was very excited as you might imagine... Thinking she took all this time inspiring herself!
I check her second drawing: I was appalled. I paid her 100 Euros for something WILD and unconventional and this is what she gave me. When I realized she would not try harder, I asked her to improve on the first drawing that at least was less conventional than the second, and this was the brilliant final work of a designer famous for being different. Not only she did NOT do any research on the topic of DRIVING SCHOOL, she did NOT pay any attention to my desire for unconventional, wild, youth etc.
I check the final work:
She also was very rude and arrogant and did not give me my money back.
100 Euros later I am stuck with a site I am embarrassed to show to my client and feel that people have to be warned against barbara: She seems like perfection in person and all the feedback that she has are almost too good to be true. Hope they are and that there are happy clients out there! I feel I have been robbed!
With so many creative minds out there. Hope you are not her next victim!
Beware of BARBARA CARNEIRO minimalist web designer.
Ines
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Portugal
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