6 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}
6 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}

Best Practice for Communicating Website Design Concept to a Deisgner?

by Lauraknigh
5 replies
  • WEB DESIGN
    • |
I'm going after a new idea, and I need to communicate my design requirements to a designer/programmer in India or Philippines. For my previous websites I just wrote out a very text heavy document with some pictures/graphics to describe how I want everything to work. I forgot to think of some details that proved important later on, and everything was a bit confused and ended up taking way more time that it should

*Does anyone have any resources or tips regarding best practices for communicating a detailed website concept to an offshore designer/programmer?
#best practice #communicating #concept #deisgner #design #practice #website
  • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
    Check out Pencil for doing quick website mockups / prototypes. The latest version even lets you hyperlink between pages, and when you're finished you can export it to HTML to send to your developer. Very cool software.

    Aside from that, the biggest tip I can give you for outsourcing web design is to make your project description as specific and detailed as possible! It will take you more time up front to explain in detail every single website element/action, but the overall project will go much smoother/quicker if you do so, and won't require near as much "back and forth" between you and the developer.
    Signature

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[7055654].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Lauraknigh
    Pencil seems pretty powerful. Thanks for that tip.

    I think where I ultimately struggle is with trying to think of every possible detail that I might need to convey to the designers/programmers. I feel like I need a template to ensure that I don't miss anything.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[7055771].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author YoohWeb
    Its always been a problem for me as well to get my ideas into the designers head. Best is to spell everything out to them and they should give you a few basic mockups before they start with the design. Most designers understand better if you can show them what you have in mind, so if you have examples of what you want it will help them allot.

    Also the tool Brandon has mentioned seems like an awesome idea.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[7056210].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author BeautifulWebsites
    Will try that, thank you.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[7056350].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author logocows
    Creating a quick mockup would be a great help.

    Of course the more details, the easier it is for the designer/developer to interpret.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[7056658].message }}

Trending Topics