House with no walls: Building a site plan for the future
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Whether your site is five pages or 500, it needs a strong foundation that plans for growth. We’ll cover site maps, content strategy, user interaction and experience so you have a plan for your site now, and down the road. We’ll also touch on best practices for doing it all over again for mobile [hint: it's not just shrinking everything down!].
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House with no walls: Building a site plan for the future
- 1. House with No Walls: Creating a Site Structure for Tomorrow Lisa Ghisolf, Gizmo Creative Factory @gizmodesign * gizmo-design.com
- 4. It’s the “un-fun” stuff • We are long past “brochureware” sites [sort of] • Content strategy: More than just what you’ll say • Sitemaps: What you need, pathways • Functionality: Phased functionality aligned with business objectives [especially in e-commerce!] • Wireframes: What lives on each page • Prototypes: Functional model/test site
- 5. Basically... • Who (your audiences) • Why (your goals) • How (functional)
- 6. But… why? • Test processes (e-commerce) • Test content • Bring clients in quickly • Iterate quickly • User experience starts early in the process • “Design in the browser”
- 7. Content strategy • User, user, user! Who are your audiences? Think about what they — not you — are expecting to see. • Look at your content: how ME-centric is it? • Good content is: up-to-date, user-centric, useful, u-findable.
- 8. Sitemap to wireframe • Visualize your structure & how users will react: Flowchart it out! • What is the process? What is interlinked? • Consistency is key
- 24. Sitemap & Wireframe Tools • Sitemaps • Powermapper.com • Slickplan.com • Wireframes • Gomockingbird.com • Balsamiq.com • Both • Jumpchart.com [w/WP export!] • gliffy.com
- 25. Prototyping Tools • Genesis Sandbox starter theme (genesissandbox.com) • Foundation (fwp.drewsymo.com) • hotgloo.com • marvelapp.com using wireframes
- 26. What’s next? Mobile • What works on a laptop or even a tablet doesn’t necessarily work on a phone • K.I.S.S.! • One-column themes • People are used to scrolling on mobile, but how much will they read? • Are the buttons big enough to touch? • As with ANY site: Make it easy on the user
- 30. Mobile Tools • marvelapp.com (desktop & mobile) • Proto.io • fluidui.com • flinto.com
- 31. Thank you! Lisa Ghisolf, Gizmo Creative Factory @gizmodesign * gizmo-design.com slideshare.com/gizmodesign