Unfinished Business

Anna and Andy exchange notes on their workplace setups and some of the tools they use, from hardware to software, and Andy gets distracted by Mutton Bustin'. This episode is sponsored by Hammer for Mac , the nifty development tool for designers and developers, and Handheld , the conference for all things mobile that’s happening in Cardiff, Wales in November 2013. Get 10% off your ticket with the o...

This week, Andy’s back from two weeks in Japan and he and Anna talk about his trip Tokyo and Hiroshima. Andy explains why he thinks everyone should visit Hiroshima at least once and Anna opens her presents with loud rustling. They answer listener questions about weekly working, pricing and invoicing and then discuss whether it's a good idea to work while on holiday. This episode is sponsored by Ha...

While waiting for Andy's return, Anna chats with her "big brother", the righteous Ryan Taylor. They discuss working from home, apprenticeships, front-end portfolios, and working with a hybrid designer/developer. This episode is sponsored by Hammer for Mac , the nifty development tool for designers and developers, and Beyond Tellerrand , a conference and workshop event for the web communi...

While Andy is in Japan, Anna is joined by the amazing Ashley Baxter , who took over her dad's insurance business at 18. They talk about starting out young, learning new skills, determination, vision and overcoming fear. This episode is sponsored by Hammer for Mac , the nifty development tool for designers and developers, and Five Simple Steps and their Pocket Guide series . Get 10% off Collection...

While Anna is en vacance en France, Andrew’s joined by guest co-host, designer Laura Kalbag to talk about mentoring students and how to give them, and other newcomers, valuable commercial project experience. Laura also talks about how best to ask for, and deal with, client feedback while Andrew remembers Mickey, the world’s cleverest chimpanzee. This episode is sponsored by Blush , beautiful lette...

Following his visit to the University of Ulster in Belfast this week, Anna and Andrew talk about how hard it is to keep up with new technologies and techniques and how to decide what aspects of web design and development to learn next. This episode is sponsored by Jon Hicks’ The Icon Handbook from at Five Simple Steps . Between now and the 1st April you’ll get 10% off all formats using the offer c...

Anna and Andy talk about Anna's new limited company, why she needed to set up a company and how she went about doing it. Andy moans about not understanding GitHub (again) and why developer tools often make him feel stupid. After hours, they talk about an episode of Anna's favourite cartoon, Adventure Time. (Andy would like to apologise for the scratchy audio in this week's episode. His beard was i...

Anna and Andy talk about the benefits Stuff and Nonsense gained when they ditched daily rates and fixed project pricing and switched to estimating, working and billing in weekly patterns. Andy explains how agile methods can benefit designers and clients, even though he doesn't really know the difference between agile and scrum. After hours, they talk about their movie of the week, Tarantino's Kill...

This week, Andy and Anna discuss their experience of working from home (or living at work), and some of the techniques that help them block out distractions. They also debate the very important issue of how to make the perfect cup of tea. At the end of the show, they talk about Kill Bill Volume 1 in what will be a regular section about Tarantino movies. This episode is sponsored by Typecast ; quic...

Anna and Andy follow up last week’s episode with listener questions about the professional (and unprofessional) ways to handle business disputes. They also discuss how best to say goodbye to a client and cue up a few movies to watch and talk about ‘after hours’ in the coming weeks.

Anna and Andy talk about how to get work and how they both found their first clients. Anna gets annoyed about revenge sites and Andy tells, for the first time, how he lost everything and restarted Stuff and Nonsense in 2006.

Anna and special guest co-host Rachel Andrew, — web developer and Director of edgeofmyseat.com, the company that makes Perch CMS. They answer listener questions about working with clients, customers, insurance, work/life balance and subcontracting.

Andy and Anna talk about their experiences when they have lost out on business and not got a dream job, doing a bad pitch (Andy has done plenty of those), learning from those mistakes and how not to take it personally when a client moves on.

In this episode, getting paid. Andy and Anna talk about deposits and down-payments, getting paid regularly and what you can do if the unthinkable happens and you have to fight for your money.

In this episode, the often taboo subject of how to decide what to charge for what you do. Getting the balance between too cheap and too pricey can be tricky, so Andy and Anna share their experiences — including Andy’s infamous ‘double your rate Fridays’ — and how to handle uncomfortable conversations about money.

Andy Clarke and Anna Debenham discuss about why a show about business is important and why one needn’t be boring. They talk about this week’s CES and whether designers and developers might need to buy these new devices. And of course, Andy talks about Planet Of The Apes while Anna nods politely.