Design New Site

When you are ready to design the site, you should set requirements for the features, functions, and content of the site. Card sorting can help you organize the site logically for users. Writing for the Web guidelines will help you put useful and usable content on your site. With parallel design, you can generate and agree on good design ideas very quickly.

Requirements

Web site requirements describe the features, functions, and content of the site. They are a list of what the site must have and what it must allow users to do. Learn More

Content Inventory

A content inventory is a list of all the content on your site.  Learn More

Card Sorting

Participants in a card sorting session are asked to organize the content from your Web site in a way that makes sense to them. Participants review items from your Web site and then group these items into categories. Learn More

Information Architecture

When you define the navigation for your site (or revise the navigation for an existing site), you want to begin by thinking about the goals of the site. What you want to accomplish by having a Web site? And, what do your users want to accomplish when they get to your site?  Learn More

Creating Use Cases

Use cases are a description of how users will perform tasks on your Web site. A use case describes a sequence of interactions between a user and the Web site but does not specify the user interface. Learn More

Writing for the Web

A successful Web site has the information that users need in the place they look for it, in the amount they want to deal with, in the words and pictures that make sense to them. On a usable Web site, users can find what they need and understand what they find in the time and effort that they think it is worth.  Learn More

Parallel Design

With parallel design, several people create an initial design from the same set of requirements. Each person works independently, and when finished, shares his/her concepts with the group.  Learn More

Prototypes

A prototype is a draft version of a Web site. Prototypes allow you to explore your ideas before investing time and money into development.  Learn More

Launching the Site

Before you begin programming your new site or the new pages you plan to add to your existing site, you may want to consider paper prototyping your design and testing it with users.  Learn More