The Business of Web Design
- 10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces
- Another Job Title Post - Dr Keith talks discusses job titles and how to describe what you do and the value you bring to clients.
- Bring me problems, not solutions - Jeff Vroft hits the nail on the hhead!
- Consensus is for losers - Great article from Dr Keith
- Contract Killers - an article I published on Digital Web about web design contracts
- Design Psychology - You know that things are going wrong when you've had an article in your todo list for over a year. Anyway, this is a really good article on the psychology of design and how to communicate your value to clients.
- Design Questions - Great list of example questions to ask your clients during the discovery phase, courtesy of Andy Rutledge
- Design by Metaphor
- Design by committee vs design by community - things we (Leisa Reichelt) learned from the Drupal.org project
- Designer Career Pyramid - Nice idea and probably faily accurate.
- Fixed-price contracts don't work - Nice summary of the benefits of agile pricing
- Flavor Flav - An interesting series of articles about the Blue Flavor design and development process which is uncannily similar to our own practices and philosophy at Clearleft
- From Little Things, Big Things Grow - A nice article by George Oates on growing and managing the flickr community
- GeekUp JobBoard - Web industry jobs in the UK's North-West
- Guild of Front-End Programmers - Sounds like a place for geekey WoW players to hang out and talk code. However its actually a pretty good idea and one Rich and I were talking about a while ago.
- How much do you charge? - The big daily rate smackdown!
- How to get clients to say yes to your designs
- How to run a brainstorming meeting
- How to run a design critique
- Huddle - A possible alternative to BaseCamp
- I Design That Stuff - What Didier has to say on the subject of what we do for a living.
- Maintaining Motivation
- Maintaining Your Work/Work Balance - Good advice from the Doc
- Making the case for Interface Design - Why 'Interface Design' is a good way of describing what many of us do for a living.
- Never Too Expensive: A Guide To Selling True Value
- Professional body for web designers
- Runway Thinking - A Practical Guide to Startup Survival
- Saving the Spark - Mark Bolton talks about the fine art of ideation over at ALA
- Selling Jeffrey Zeldman on Selling - Really nice interview with Jeffrey on the art of client relations.
- Spec Can Be Beaten
- Start-up pitching advice
- Startups in 13 Sentences
- The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
- The A-Team Theory - I ain't getting on no plane, fool
- The ALA Web Design Survey, 2007
- The First Year: 7 Lessons Learned - The business lessons learned by James Archer during the first year of running Forty Media.
- The Immutable Laws of Web Design and Development
- The cobbler’s children - How to win work without pitching
- This Ain’t No Disco - cool agency offices
- Tips about working from home
- UK Rate Card Survey - If you are a web designer/developer based in the UK, please fill this survey in yourself, or get somebody in your organisation to do it. Knowing this type of information is invaluable, so the more people involved, the better.
- Web Design Contracts: Why Bother
- Write a Business Plan that Works - Good article on the art of business plan writing.
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