One of the scariest things about a Web site creator is the concept of redesigning a site due to usability problems or user dissatisfaction. With the right plan, you can plan, test, and improve your site design before the site runs. We will provide you with some very effective planning strategies that you can adapt to fit small businesses or extend to a large group organization environment. To illustrate the key to the design site, we have overall planned a skater's virtual entrance-irippage.com. With the irippage.com solution and its dedicated WEB design team, we will guide you in setting clear goals, identifying target users, creating user personal information, and articulating design goals.
Set goals
Work together to develop a goal that will be guided by both the Working Group and the core content of the site.
Locating users
Find out how to determine your target users and user personal information so that you can plan for optimal availability.
Creating a Model
Put together your ideas to plan hierarchies, layouts, and HTML models.
Opinion Feedback
Learn how to respond to feedback from interest groups and modify your model.
Set goals
Each site needs a basic goal-a goal that guides the work team, determines the content of the site, and ultimately attracts users. It's important to clarify your mission,
Its importance has even overwhelmed everything else, and you can convene a fruitful meeting to discuss some of the following simple questions. We will aim at irippage.com.
Shows how to proceed with this process:
What is the purpose of our meeting here?
Mainly for skateboarding enthusiasts set up a website portal.
What goals do you want the site to achieve?
It is actually a source of information for the skateboard market by providing all the information (entertainment and product display) that skateboarding enthusiasts need. Also, create an active online skateboarding association where skateboarding enthusiasts can meet and talk to each other. What goals do you want your users to use this site for? Learn about skateboarding, exchange experiences with other skateboarding enthusiasts, and discover products they are looking for from the company they trust. What does the site rely on to attract users? Attractive and comprehensive content, skateboarding skills, active message boards, skateboard products and presentations.
What does the site rely on to attract users to log on regularly? Update content (news, daily photos and tips), active message boards, product presentations, and interviews with members of the skateboarding association. In addition, there are free e-mail, downloadable wallpaper, electronic greeting cards and so on. Each of these issues should be investigated in more detail. Write down all the questions and answers on the whiteboard on your work area. Encourage your design team (or even a group of
Helpful friends) Connect some ideas ("Building a Dynamic Skateboarding association") with specific behaviors ("Create an association's message board"). When the answer involves designing another page for a Web site, using new technology, or adding anything, consider which of the following three scenarios: Must have, wish to have, can not. Then these priorities will be necessary if limited resources or time constraints force you to make a compromise choice.
The task of irippage.com is to inspire other parts of the conceptualization process: to become the actual resource center for skateboarding enthusiasts-providing them with the most comprehensive editorial content, building interactive societies, and rich product presentations and convenient online shopping. It also provides a prioritized list for the design team so that constructive comments can work in the process of creating the final site specification.
Locating users
Do you want to build a comprehensive site with a large number of users? There is absolutely no need for that. A wide range of content will only keep users away from the site and not attract users. Reduce the coverage of your target audience, build a trusted relationship with your users, and give users a complete understanding of your site.
Conduct research on your users
It can be assumed that most of the users who visit the irippage.com site are young, sporty, and predominantly male. Although some of the users who visit irippage.com are not very well (for example, middle-aged or female), the design team will have to decide whether their design results will attract a large number of peripheral users and make them core users. The core user group will have an impact on the overall content direction of the site, not to mention the appearance and style of the site.
After a thorough discussion, the irippage.com design team surveyed local skateboarding venues, Brick-and-mortar skate shops and popular skateboarding enthusiasts ' websites. The design team has decided to target young sports enthusiasts, including men and women skateboarding enthusiasts. The group also spends a lot of time documenting the style of its target users in pulleys, costumes and languages. In addition, the regularity of the selection of skateboard venues has also enabled the Irippage.com team members to have a certain understanding of the WEB technology and interests of their target users. With all this in hand, the design team is now ready to create the user's personal information.
Create personal information
George Olsen, How2.com's Web constructor, was a strong supporter of creating personal information for targeted users at a recent builder.com meeting. Personal information is made up of potential users who are encountered during the investigation of the target user. The irippage.com group only maintains the rights of Garrett, Seth or Jessie, but does not protect the rights of anonymous and ordinary "users".
Communication with at least three enthusiasts will cover the age of the target user, Web technology mastery, and major interests. Give the user name, photo, and identity on the whiteboard. In addition, record a short description in the photo, including a platform for each user surfing the web, his/her main interest in your site, and his/her first opinion of the site. and by adding some details to make a choice of their personal information to fit the core theme of your Web site. For the practical implementation of usability and content prioritization, the irippage.com design team will adjust its design approach to the user's point of view.
Creating a Model
The model starts with creating a hierarchy. The irippage.com hierarchy starts with the first activity: starting with the goal discussion. Put the news, products, photos, message boards, and tips labeled "must have" in the top navigation. Starting with the previous page, the design team establishes how visitors drill into and out of the site, from one part to another, and how to perform specific actions.
Once you've given rich content to the hierarchical structure of the test phase, you can start this simple, rough visual model. From this sketch, you can create an HTML frame, which is the basic graphic of a Web page with placeholders for content, navigation, and graphics. Remember these basic questions when you organize your hierarchies and design your models:
How do you know where I am?
How do I know where I might go next or where I should go?
How do I know how to return to where I am?
You can insert sample graphics and content into several frame examples. Team members should print out each version to compare page types at the same time and consider the possibility of blending and matching. In the entire phase of creating the model, refer to the user information irippage.com design team to complete all the steps to create the model with the interests and capabilities of Jessie,seth and Garrettteam. They determine the associated accessibility of the site and test the overall usability and visibility of the information design.
Meeting with interest group members
Assemble the interest group (Irippage.com will go to the local skateboard site and summon five skateboard enthusiasts) and show them the HTML model. The conversation always revolves around all aspects of the design process (from the intended color scheme to the navigation and Content Center). Provide them with sample content and ask for a reflection of color, content, and length. Create tasks for your interest group members to reflect real-world behavior. Irippage.com assigned the following tasks to his interest group:
Go to the Tony Hawk page from the home page.
From the Tony Hawk page, paste a trick that performs "Ollie" spoofing, and then return to the home page.
Find the new Girl skateboard deck display from the home page.
Purchase a new Girl skateboard skateboard from the Display section and return to the product section.
From the product section, paste comments about Hornet Wheel to the appropriate section of the message board.
Please pay close attention to recurring complaints and problems. Please note that you hear some comments (e.g. "Why here?") and "How can I get there" or "I should be able to go to the destination in one step, not a few steps"), Time and time interval. Solicit the views of the members of the interest group to identify workable solutions. Collect all of this information and then feed back to your model. Now is the time to modify the model.
Opinion Feedback
Irippage.com designers found some problems in their initial hierarchy. Members of this group do not like to combine shopping and presentation under the "Product" heading. This name is ambiguous and the user thinks it is off the credibility of the product display. In the case of the sample, the team members considered the first person and easy-going tone to be the most appealing. They think that the editors must have a good knowledge of skateboarding, preferably in the skateboarding association's activities, rather than just using the content of the national article as a reference.
By adhering to the goal, using user information, and directing interest group testing, the final model reflects all of these changes. Before the site is ready to be established, members of the irippage.com team will again solicit the views of the volunteer testers to obtain a further evaluation of the model.
Design flowchart
Modified hierarchy Modified HTML frame
Some information on the notes
Most WEB sites create a detailed written documentation that is large to how the site runs, as small as clicking a link. The description has a comprehensive and clear exposition of the site profile and needs to be entered and closed by team leaders and decision makers before implementing the site. Small businesses can also benefit from record notes, especially if an external company wants to establish a final site. This is the best way to ensure that everyone is on the same page.
The description should include the final hierarchy, content organization, and all the technologies involved in the database or any transaction operation. The description is a detailed blueprint of your site, and anyone who reads it will have a comprehensive understanding of the site as planned.