I love Johannes’ tip #7 – “Don’t be so impressed by your own design that you forget to observe and respond to your clients’ reactions to what they are seeing.”

That should be up on the wall in every boardroom around the world. 

There’s a lot of companies out there that are quite happy making products they think people will want to buy. Not us.

We try and do things the other way around and we’ve been developing Remix largely based on what you’ve told us you want. We try not to be too impressed until we know something’s working well. For you.

After all, we’re developing Remix for you. Not us.

Sure – we’re pretty attached to Remix and sometimes it’s hard to get critical or negative feedback , but we’ll never ignore it.

If you’ve got ideas or feedback, or just want to tell us what you think of PJ Remix, let us know. Comment on our Forum, Blog or send us an email.

And thanks. PJ wouldn’t be what it is without your help.

One of our Support Team whizzes, Ian C, tells us that some clients are getting confused about the difference between the Recent Product and Recent Event lists on the Photojunction start screen.

So in this short movie, Danny explains the difference, in less than a minute. Quite remarkable really – he’s usually such a talker

Watch it here.

Cheers, Nigel

I’m writing a series of posts on album design on Queensberry Connects (here’s the first). Here are some quick tips, mainly PJ-related, that are important no matter what albums you’re selling.

1 Do your homework first – interrogate your clients well.

2 Organise your images – put everything in a good place where you can find it easily (eg image collections).

3 Pre-plan options – Use the Duplicate album tool (label each one distinctly) or create ‘alternative’ layouts in the main album.

4 Exceed their expectations – blow them out of the water! (Be inventive with size, layout, and content, and be generous with the pages and images.)

5 Have examples – to overcome their  fear of the unknown (remember they can’t see the real album). Your sample albums and the QBY swatch book are good starting points.

6 When you see the couple after the wedding present a powerful, pre-designed album enhanced with the right music, made using the slideshow function in PJ Remix.

I lied about 5 tips - #6 was a bonus for reading this post.

Take care, Johannes

PS   Here’s Tip 7 – Most important? Don’t be so impressed by your own design that you forget to observe and respond to your clients’ reactions to what they are seeing.