{"id":390,"date":"2009-08-05T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T08:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2010-10-29T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T12:15:17","slug":"website-design-lessons-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/website-design-lessons-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Website design &#8211; lessons learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished managing a web design project and was reflecting on lessons learned. Three big ones for me:<\/p>\r\n<ul class=\"bulletlist\">\r\n<li>On this project we worked with an external design agency to develop the information architecture, user personas and user journeys. I was rather sceptical about this approach in this case as some work had already been done, but am now a convert to the cause. This work actually made a critical difference between a website that would have been just OK and one that&#8217;s really good. <\/li>\r\n<li>We used a lot of mockups and clickable wireframes, and they really served to bring the project to life, and instil confidence in our project stakeholders. Even more true on a web project because it&#8217;s so visual. One prototype page is worth many Powerpoint slides.<\/li>\r\n<li>As part of the design we did some &#8220;quick and dirty&#8221; user testing, where we rounded up a few potential users and sat them in front of a working mockup. This was useful for the design, but had the additional effect of adding a huge amount of weight to the design decisions, to the extent that these were almost never questioned subsequently &#8211; which I&#8217;m pretty sure would have happened without the testing.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Useful lessons for next time.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished managing a web design project and was reflecting on lessons learned. Three big ones for me: On this project we worked with an external design agency to develop the information architecture, user personas and user journeys. I was rather sceptical about this approach in this case as some work had already been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,17],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-design-and-build","tag-lessons-learned","tag-linkedin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}