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or why I won't, until the money runs out...
Articles on how design is managed, with practical ideas and real-life examples of design being used for business success.
Great ideas are only great if they fit a purpose, as such it is important to be clear from the outset what your site’s core user proposition is.
Seek to be a double/triple/quadruple threat.
- Adactio: Journal - Microsoft in London adactio.com
Microsoft threw an invite-only gathering at its London offices: something about start-ups and Web 2.0. [...] Here are the notes I took…
- Web Worker 101: Estimating Basics « Web Worker Daily webworkerdaily.com
Whatever your skills as software developer or web designer (or whatever your web work career entails), you need to also understand the basics of estimating.
Unlock the secrets to your advertising/creative agency’s happiness, fame and fortune.
- Digital Web Magazine - Contract Killers digital-web.com
The tricky situation of quoting for web design and development projects, and the various types of contracts you can agree upon.
- TV Torrents — When Piracy Is Easier Than Purchase slashdot.org
"As a musician [...] I've often thought about this. I've come to the realization that the price factor is a "problem" that is going to grow exponentially as time moves forward."
- Managing Humans - An Introduction managinghumans.com
This book isn't just about management, it's about creating places where people can comfortably build stuff.
- Time Management for Anarchists: The Movie nomediakings.org
Based on the paradoxical notion that anarchists have to be more organized than average if they don’t want to depend on power structures, and presents some ideas on how to kick the boss habit.
Client wants a website, Agency wants a client, but Client wants something for nothing and to see other agencies. What’s Agency to do?
- James Shore: Successful Software jamesshore.com
You can Change Your Organization or Change Your Organization.
- This Ain’t No Disco aintnodisco.com
This Ain’t No Disco {it’s where we work} invites Agencies from across the world to show us their inner sanctum
- The brainstorm - a trojan horse of mediocrity adliterate.com
A facilitators main task is to ensure that 'everyone goes home with a balloon' after a brainstorm - that they all feel that their pointless lives have been made somehow better by this semi cathartic experience and by the lovely little warm up games that they all played. Not to mention that they all got to vote on the most simplistic and incompetent ideas with a little stash of post it notes like some kind of mutant pin the tail on the donkey game. Facilitators like pariticipants to have a nice time more than they like delivering actionable output.
- Xchangeteam - Freelancer of the Year xchangeteam.com
Designed to showcase freelance talent and reward those consultants who have demonstrated that they have added real value to a client’s business.
- Fractals of Change: Morph of a Nerd CEO - The Power of Silence blog.tomevslin.com
Negotiation is not debate.
- Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Refactoring Your Career « webworkerdaily.com
Here’s a catalog of career refactorings you can apply to help move yourself towards your own vision of what you want to be doing next.
- Creating Passionate Users: Don't ask employees to be passionate about the company! headrush.typepad.com
"People ask me, "How can I get our employees to be passionate about the company?" Wrong question. Passion for our employer, manager, current job? Irrelevant. Passion for our profession and the kind of work we do? Crucial."
- Make that blog work | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
How do you get people to use the company's internal blog?
- Top ten tips for preventing innovation -Tyner Blain tynerblain.com
Most companies do a good job of providing incremental improvements to existing products and processes. What are those few who struggle with innovation doing wrong?
- Tails - Effortless bugtracking. tailshq.com
- The best way to professionally raise my rates? | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
Independent contractor filter: what is the best way to simultaneously raise my rates and not lose the business?
- 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job stevepavlina.com
The new roster - worth an estimated £9 million - combines Digital Media's previous Design and Development roster with the Interactive/Online Media Creative roster.
- The Perils of PC Posture - Yahoo! News news.yahoo.com
The list is not specific to any particular type of development position, but I tried to balance it between both the design/html/usability side of things and the back-end/database/programming side.
- Digital UK ad, advert | visit4info visit4info.com
Digital UK TV spots featuring Matt Lucas.
- Get set for digital | Digital UK digitaluk.co.uk
Television in the UK is going digital, bringing us all more choice and new services. Digital UK, the not-for-profit organisation set up by the public service broadcasters, is here to help.
"A font for programming must be monospaced, extremely readable, and must sharply distinguish between similar characters, such as capital O and zero and the number 1, capital I, and lowercase L. In addition, good programming fonts allow you to view more li
- Cygwin Information and Installation cygwin.com
A Linux-like environment for Windows.
- BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Digital switch awareness 'is low' news.bbc.co.uk
Well, that needs fixing...
- Creative Latitude: Resources: Downloads creativelatitude.com
CreativePublic is your one-stop shop for quality forms, contracts, employee manuals, company policies and pricing for graphic designers. Download free samples.
- Workrave workrave.org
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit.
- pricing (27 October 2005, Interconnected) interconnected.org
Charge more if there's a lot of value being extracted, if the work is dull, and if there's risk involved; charge less if the work takes the company in good directions, if it's really interesting, and if it's for people we like.
- The Lazy Way to Success: Finding Your Calling lazyway.blogs.com
Handy tips from Giles