Designing with clients

It's a running joke in our industry how painful it is to work with clients. In this talk I'll go through the processes we use to design and develop the front end of our eCommerce websites, specifically using Magento. I will discuss how working closely with clients creates better websites and happier clients.

Transcript

1. Designing with clients @daveredfern
2. The big reveal
7. We hate it.
9. The control which designers know in the print medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility. John Allsopp, A dao of Web Design
10. layout is content-driven and styles are brand-driven
13. Specification documents
14. Wireframe the specifications
15. Audit the wireframes
16. Prototype using our own pattern library
18. Design for the platform you’re using
19. The way we build websites and the way we design them differ.
21. Bye bye sign off
22. Perfecting layouts in Photoshop is time consuming. This time is better spent at the end, on the actual code.
23. Design never ends • At the wireframing stage we plan the project • At the auditing stage we review the wireframes • At the design stage we mockup a design style • At the coding stage we integrate it all together
24. Learn and iterate
25. Thanks @daveredfern