What do you do when your design gets ‘updated’?
A few days ago Tim Van Damme tweeted about a website that he designed being replaced with an inferior design. Ok, inferior is an understatement here.
It’s always though seeing an old website you made go away or being butchered, but this one breaks my heart: http://www.tenforce.com/ #rip
http://twitter.com/maxvoltar/status/6440205714
Today I was browsing through the websites I worked on and noticed that one of them got so many elements added to the design that it no longer resembles to my original design. I am sure this happens a lot. Sometimes, as it is in my case, the original designer isn’t consulted when new elements are added to the website.
It’s good when there’s still a designer overseeing updates but what happens when developers do the design work too? In my case, my design looks like a christmas tree now: no logical hierarchy of the elements, poor use of typography and new colors that don’t blend with the design. Probably the client thought everything is equally important so every element screams for attention dressed in red and yellow. I kid you not 
What do you do when this happens? Do you ever contact the client? Do you just let it go?