March 11th, 2006–March 12th, 2006 in Austin, TX
Kenny suggests that “developing with web standards is now a standard,” and that we all need to stop focusing on getting people to write standards-compliant code and start focusing on getting the browser makers to give us the new shiny and the W3C to finish some of it’s long-proposed specs. I agree completely. Visit site »
SXSW is back! And this time, they enlisted Blue Flavor to do some IA/UX work for them. Nick and Tom spent a great deal of time trying to get the IA for the site just right, and then SXSW took it from there with their internal resources. It’s definitely a big improvement, in my mind. Visit site »
As a follow up to her post earlier this week, Tiff has a new blog post that details how we estimate potential projects. It also goes hand-in-hand with a pricing guide page that Keith posted today. Visit site »
Tiffani’s short and sweet post about a potential client’s budget (as it relates to early talks with an agency about your project) has kicked off a nice discussion on the matter. Visit site »
In part three of Keith’s ongoing series of post about working with Blue Flavor, he talks in detail about how best to empower our designers and get their best work out of them. I think many potential clients do have a misguided perception of how the relationship between client and designer should work, and Keith aims to quell some of those misunderstandings. Really good stuff. Visit site »
Blue Flavor’s own Tiffani Jones has a nice blog post about learning to write for the web. Good stuff; check it out. Visit site »
Keith wrote a really nice and thorough piece on how to engage Blue Flavor, if you might be interested in talking to us. He talks about how we scope, estimate, and charge for projects, what kind of projects we want (and don’t want), and how both sides can be successful in the early stages — and this is only part one of a series. Visit site »