Before work ever begins on any project, a subtle, psychological game of “you go first” must take place over the budget. This is without a doubt, a frustrating game for both sides. As an agency, we don’t want to waste … Continued
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Your Estimates are Wrong and It’s Costing You
No matter how much experience you have, unless you’re breaking your estimates down into smaller pieces, all the way down to the individual tasks — they’re likely to be wrong. Potentially very wrong. When Estimates Go Wrong With web technologies … Continued
Evenflow Tutorial
Our newest addition to Evenflow is a nine step tutorial that will walk new and old users alike through the basics of creating a proposal in Evenflow. Completing every goal will hopefully introduce you to some powerful features of Evenflow … Continued
How to Raise Your Rate (and Stop Competing on Price)
You can raise your rate in Evenflow with a few clicks. Getting clients to pay the higher rate is a bit more difficult, but not impossible. The way to charge more, without being undercut by competitors, is to increase the … Continued
Evenflow Updated to Version 2.2
We closed 12 tickets on Zendesk (our support forum and ticket system), fixed 4 other bugs, and added a pricing page to the sign-up process. For our next release, we plan to finish our interactive tutorial, which should help users new … Continued
We have officially launched!
With lots of hard work from everyone on our team, we managed to launch Evenflow at the start of South by Southwest 2012! We were just in time for the flood of developers, designers, and entrepreneurs to wash over Austin. Along … Continued
New Evenflow Features (v1.2)
In addition to some bug fixes, we’ve added a couple big new features to Evenflow with version 1.2, which is online now if you’re already an Evenflow user. Last week we were focused on three main things: descriptions, flat cost tasks, … Continued
Web Proposal Survey Results: 2011
At the end of 2011, we did a small survey of web design and development professionals, asking them about how they estimate projects and write proposals. As a professional design agency ourselves, the results were enlightening. We write about 8-10 … Continued
You Should Be Quoting the “Privacy Policy”
There’s a saying in software development: the first ninety percent of development takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. This isn’t meant to be a scare tactic, causing project managers to throw … Continued
How much time do you spend on wireframes?
Whether you practice waterfall, or agile project management, or something in between, wireframes can be extremely useful. I would argue that they should be required for every project. Without wireframes, you will end up making poor decisions that will have … Continued