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by eendtje 26 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago
Interesting post.
The underlying thought is very try. Myself, I tend to get a lot of conceptual 'work' done during my morning shower.
But it's the hours I spend fleshing out those jolts of inspiration that show up on clients' billings. I see the fact that I think about life, design and everything on my off hours as part of my value as a designer, and that effort reflected in my hourly rate.
by idapostle 26 weeks 19 hours 50 min 7 sec ago
Thanks for commenting eendtje,
There is a great post “7 Reasons You Shouldn’t Charge by the Hour” on Mirificam Press at http://mirificampress.com/permalink/7_reasons_you_shouldnt_charge_by_the... you might find interesting/valuable.
by eendtje 25 weeks 6 days 1 hour 13 min ago
Thanks for the link. Interesting stuff.
What I usually do is give a quote based on the expected hours and then mostly treat that like a fixed price for the work.
This makes it clear for clients what the price is based on, and assures me of a minimum fee. If the work gets out of hand for some mutually unforeseen reason, it also gives a good basis to talk about price-adjustments (e.g. "Due to the fact that we decided to switch to concept X last week, this item on my quote took me twice as long, so can we agree on X more hours?)
I have a rather casual way of working with clients (and I have the 'luxury' of not having a bucket-load of them at the same time yet), and this approach seems to work well for me.
by idapostle 25 weeks 5 days 21 hours 23 min ago
eendtje,
There have been a lot of new comments on the subject (42) at the original post. Worth checking out the different points of view.
http://www.idapostle.com/design/why-design-cant-be-billed-by-the-hour/