Probably the most common misfortune every creator encounters is that something he thought up doesn’t or won’t work as planned and it has to be changed. In a way half of work is done by just recognizing and accepting that it doesn’t work.

But how do you do that?

Our change of image navigation was in retrospect quite easy. As a friend said: “You don’t have to satisfy everyone, but you should satisfy at least somebody.”

It wasn’t easy for me, because I was quite attached to it and I failed to recognize it as a problem. And this wasn’t even a close call.

So, how do you decide when to give in to requests conflicting with your vision?

Relying on a personal hunch might work for a while, but as a long-term strategy it’s probably not much better than rolling a dice.