Today I was proud myself on a career level:
On one of my project, they told us from the beginning that they had another design firm on retainer and they wanted them to do the UI and us to do the UX. so we met with the guy from that company, Tom*, today and we started talking and he said that even if our designer did wireframes they would redo them so they were “sexy.” so i asked if they would be using bootstrap, bc you know coding. tom instantly went on guard and informed us that he had never used bootstrap and that “i don’t like responsive design” and “i can’t control the design if it moves around.” at this point he tried to move the conversation away from that and i was like ‘oh hells no’ so i stopped the convo and went back to that and basically was like “[client], if Tom redoes the wireframes and then adds UI but doesn’t do responsive that will be a waste of time.” so then the client cut the meeting in a nice way and we got back on the phone with her after and she was instantly apologetic and knew that Tom was out of line and not a good fit, so we came up with a solution where they are just providing us with the style guide and we’re doing the rest.
I was really proud of how I handled this guy who basically came into the call super cocky and instead of rising my hackles in a way that made me come across unyielding or non-compromising, I instead stuck to my guns of protecting my team (which is always my number one goal) and was able to show the client that using this guy in the way she originally foresaw would not be beneficial, but we could "definitely still use his input on UI elements."
*name changed
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