The Design Process

Here I will be looking at the design process:

• Identifying basic function of site from clients
• Identify stake holders
• Estimate of delivery date and overall cost
• Needs analysis/requirements

- With any particular group, you need to:
Identify all tasks
Identify most common tasks
Develop a set of use-case senarios
e.g. a potential online shopper have a senario of shopping for certain items and buying them
How can create a use-case senario? - Case study
- Look at other supermarket websites (competitive analysis)
- Feedback on the existing website I'm redesigning
- Userbility testing

• Specification - exact functions of site and technologies to make it
• Sign off document

-Interaction Design

1. Establish requirements and identify needs
2. Develop alternative designs
   
3. Build interactive versions }Iterative
   
4. Evaluation

There are three characteristics of this process:

1. Focus on users
2. Specific usability and user experience goals
3. Iterative design

• Come up with some designs (having finalised architecture info)
• Usability testing on prototypes
• Re-design
• Initial build
• Testing
• Final Build
• Implementation
• Evaluation (and modifications if necessary)
• Maintenance
  

This is quite a detailed process, the next post will be on the waterfall model.