I’ve left teaching at Art Institute for the time being in order to get freelance work and everything else under control while I finish graduate school and decided it’s high time that (yea, yea, I’ve said before) I put more effort into posting articles. While I’m busting my head putting some together, I’ll be reposting some good finds (which is particularly easy at year-end when everyone is posting lists). So here we go…
This is a post from SixRevisions (always a good source) talking about questions you should ask when designing a web site.
We spend a lot of time asking ourselves, our clients and other people questions. Whether it’s choosing the perfect shade of green for our latest web layout or figuring out how to implement a complex typographical solution, the ability to ask the right questions is among the most critical of skills for a web designer. In this article, we’ll go over 60 specific questions that web professionals should ask before taking their website public.
Many professionals work with the aid of checklists, while others routinely check for certain issues as the design evolves. While there isn’t a sure-fire way to avoid the embarrassment of forgetting something post-launch, the habit of continually questioning your work as you develop a website is critical. Sometimes it can be as simple as “Does this work?”; in other cases, more technical questions need to be asked (and answered). (more…)