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Six steps for Building successful websites ! - Strategic Design
Web design isn’t art. It involves a whole collection of different skills .
But in order to combine all elements of Web design together and achieve successful results you must have a clear direction, a direction that will guide each and every aspect of your design towards common goals. You must think strategically.
What is strategic design?
Strategic design is the fusion of your organizational goals with every aspect of your design process. You aren’t simply designing a user interface that looks good and is usable and accessible. You’re designing an interface that will help you accomplish your organization’s objectives.
There are many websites out there that look fantastic and sport the latest trends in design yet often fail miserably in their intended function.
Web design is all about crafting an interface that communicates function, is usable and accessible and exudes the right emotion and feeling. Effective Web design needs all of these elements to be in tune with the goals of your website and in sync with the organizational objectives behind the website. Strategic design is all about identifying those goals and using them to guide your design.
Implementing Strategic Design :
Let’s take a look at how we can use six steps to think strategically about a Web design project:
1. Establish your goals :
One of the first things you need to do before starting work on a Web design project is to be clear about your client or organization’s goals. A clear direction is essential if you want your design to have a purpose.
2. Identify your audience :
Who your audience is will play a big role in how your website should look and function. There are many demographics here that can influence your design, ones like age, gender, profession and technical competency.
3. Determine your brand image :
A lot of designers tend to get a little too inspired by the latest trends and then implement them without thinking first about what sort of image they really should be conveying. Glossy buttons, gradients and reflective floors may work for some websites, but they may not be right for your brand.
4. Goal-driven design direction :
You’ve established the purpose of your website, set some goals you want to achieve, identified your audience and determined your brand image. You can now proceed to implement it.
These are just three ways you can lead your design towards accomplishing the goal of increasing the number of sign-ups to your service. Your goals may vary, but the strategy is the same: shape and focus all the design elements towards meeting those goals
5. Measure results :
Once you’ve designed and deployed your website, it’s time to measure your success. This is just as important as the first two steps because until you test how well your design performs, you won’t know whether or not it is effective in fulfilling your goals.
6. Kaizen:
There is a Japanese philosophy called “Kaizen,” which focuses on continuous improvement using small steps. When you work on your website, you should be thinking of Kaizen because the version you’ve just published is not the final version. There doesn’t even have to be a final version.
You can always make improvements, and the very nature of a website will allow you to introduce these at any time.
But in order to combine all elements of Web design together and achieve successful results you must have a clear direction, a direction that will guide each and every aspect of your design towards common goals. You must think strategically.
What is strategic design?
Strategic design is the fusion of your organizational goals with every aspect of your design process. You aren’t simply designing a user interface that looks good and is usable and accessible. You’re designing an interface that will help you accomplish your organization’s objectives.
There are many websites out there that look fantastic and sport the latest trends in design yet often fail miserably in their intended function.
Web design is all about crafting an interface that communicates function, is usable and accessible and exudes the right emotion and feeling. Effective Web design needs all of these elements to be in tune with the goals of your website and in sync with the organizational objectives behind the website. Strategic design is all about identifying those goals and using them to guide your design.
Implementing Strategic Design :
Let’s take a look at how we can use six steps to think strategically about a Web design project:
1. Establish your goals :
One of the first things you need to do before starting work on a Web design project is to be clear about your client or organization’s goals. A clear direction is essential if you want your design to have a purpose.
2. Identify your audience :
Who your audience is will play a big role in how your website should look and function. There are many demographics here that can influence your design, ones like age, gender, profession and technical competency.
3. Determine your brand image :
A lot of designers tend to get a little too inspired by the latest trends and then implement them without thinking first about what sort of image they really should be conveying. Glossy buttons, gradients and reflective floors may work for some websites, but they may not be right for your brand.
4. Goal-driven design direction :
You’ve established the purpose of your website, set some goals you want to achieve, identified your audience and determined your brand image. You can now proceed to implement it.
These are just three ways you can lead your design towards accomplishing the goal of increasing the number of sign-ups to your service. Your goals may vary, but the strategy is the same: shape and focus all the design elements towards meeting those goals
5. Measure results :
Once you’ve designed and deployed your website, it’s time to measure your success. This is just as important as the first two steps because until you test how well your design performs, you won’t know whether or not it is effective in fulfilling your goals.
6. Kaizen:
There is a Japanese philosophy called “Kaizen,” which focuses on continuous improvement using small steps. When you work on your website, you should be thinking of Kaizen because the version you’ve just published is not the final version. There doesn’t even have to be a final version.
You can always make improvements, and the very nature of a website will allow you to introduce these at any time.
Saturday 23 August 2014
Happy Welcome to All !
Hi everyone,
This is Yogeshwari from TN, India . I am a researcher in various fields like Big Data , Web development , Internet Marketing and so-on . One of my best passion is Web Designing. Iam developing my career in Web development by my programming , creative and designing skills.
This is Yogeshwari from TN, India . I am a researcher in various fields like Big Data , Web development , Internet Marketing and so-on . One of my best passion is Web Designing. Iam developing my career in Web development by my programming , creative and designing skills.
By the way , I have completed B.E CSE ( 2014 batch ) . And Now I am freelance Web Designer . Looking for great opportunity to develop high level of my career on web development.
Contact me by mail at yogeshwariyoge@gmail.com and yrwebdesigns@gmail.com
Contact me by mail at yogeshwariyoge@gmail.com and yrwebdesigns@gmail.com
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