Our usual setup:

• Discuss deliverables with client; create a quote with full breakdown of estimated number of man-days required to deliver each deliverable; charge a fixed day rate per designer / developer needed
• 40% deposit, 60% balance before go live
• Legals must be signed before any work starts; contract outlines the general rules of engagement (e.g. late payment penalties, missing deadline consequences, non-acceptance of various types of liability etc)
• Xero to manage accounts and issue invoices (also integrates with time trackers etc if needed)
• TeamWeek to plan who's working on what, and when
• CharlieHR for general HR stuff

Hope this helps

It's responsive!

Assuming that you're good at what you do, the most important thing to remember is the age old adage –

Revenue is vanity. Profit is sanity. Cash is reality.

You only run out of cash once, so manage your cashflow properly! Ensure that you have at least a simple one-pager contract for all work; which sets out payment terms etc. Take a deposit before you start work. Potentially offer a small discount for early payment and/or fines/interest for late payment.

Hi everyone,

Artificial are looking for Senior UX and Senior UI Designers.

We're currently building two fairly niche platforms for use in the specialist insurance market, aiming to create a fully integrated suite of tools that modernises much of the Lloyds insurance process.

We feel that the insurance industry is extremely antiquated, much more so than banking. Banking and finance are currently experiencing their renaissance with fintech. We believe it is only a matter of time before the insurance industry experiences a similar renaissance.

We would therefore like to be on the forefront of the insurance modernisation by providing users with better tools, allowing them to do their jobs more easily and efficiently. We have big plans, but need to start small - hence our niche products at this stage.

We're currently a team of 15 who are based in London near Bank, with an additional satellite office in Warsaw, Poland (based out of Tech hub Warsaw). We welcome remote work, but would prefer you to be in a European timezone if possible.

If you're interested or would like to chat, please send an email to jobs@artificial.io.

We'll arrange Skype calls for any interviews. We would like to see your portfolio with any case studies if possible.

Thanks, Johnny

We use it in most projects! Most recently as part of the frontend build for https://digitalprofile.io/

I have a few, could be persuaded to sell...

• beesgo.bz
• boys.io
• reverrb.com
• johnny.im
• teaser.io

Bloody hell, just realised that the last set we (I was part of a DJ duo) recorded was in 2012!

https://soundcloud.com/tonedefdeejays/feb-2012-mix-dance-fm

Need to get back into it.

Nice! I agree, you can definitely do complex and cool stuff with WP.

We built this a while ago http://www.bmwbusinesspartnership.co.uk and although it does some complex stuff on the WP backend, in hindsight it would have been much faster/easier to develop the same functionality with more suitable tools.

We were fighting with WP on numerous occasions, making the development process somewhat tiresome after a while.

I like this idea, will definitely test it out!

I agree, our main grievance is that developing on top of WP just isn't a pleasant experience.