We're often asked why we bill in a retainer model. Here's some background on some of our motives when we began to add them to our service offerings.
Why We Began Selling Support and Maintenance Retainers
19 Feb 2016
Articles
Collaborative: A Planet Argon Core Value
17 Feb 2016
4 Ways To Get To Know Your Clients
8 Feb 2016
Don't forget the the middle-man in between you and the user. You know, the company behind the product? AKA your client? Their organization? To build a successful product, it’s just as important to get to know them for a lot of reasons.
Versatile: Another Core Value
2 Feb 2016
Some time in the last year we decided that we needed to re-examine our existing core values. When we sat down to rethink this, versatility was already one of our core objectives. It’s one of our values that has stuck with us and has been relevant in our agency throughout the years.
Creating Custom Actions in Spree Commerce
11 Jan 2016
A developer's walkthrough for creating a custom action inside Spree Commerces internals.
Proactive: A Planet Argon Core Value
4 Jan 2016
As a core value, we define proactive as actively seeking opportunities to improve our client’s products, our processes, and our abilities. What does that mean? And why is this important to us?
Why I Ask Why And You Should Too
8 Dec 2015
As a designer, asking that simple question, ‘why?’, is very critical to my job, and one I need to ask before I start anything. Why?
A New "Recipe Box"
4 Nov 2015
Just in time for the holidays, we are excited to announce the launch of the new Recipe Box by Oregonian|OregonLive; a redesigned, responsive site that allows users to easily search and find the publication’s collection of recipes.
Thoughts on Portland's Responsive Field Day
3 Nov 2015
A handful of weeks ago, a handful of us had the awesome opportunity to attend Portland’s Responsive Field Day; a one day conference on responsive design mirrored after Responsive Day Out— a conference put on by Jeremy Keith and Clearleft in the UK. Here's what we had to say.
Turning our attention to our main concern, the pyramid
5 Oct 2015
Last week, we unveiled the new Planet Argon logo to the team. We’re delighted to now share it with you.