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Designing with clients

Dave Redfern
September 17, 2015

Designing with clients

It's a running joke in our industry how painful it is to work with clients. In this talk I'll go through the processes we use to design and develop the front end of our eCommerce websites, specifically using Magento. I will discuss how working closely with clients creates better websites and happier clients.

Dave Redfern

September 17, 2015
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  1. The control which designers know in the print medium, and

    often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility. John Allsopp, A dao of Web Design
  2. Perfecting layouts in Photoshop is time consuming. This time is

    better spent at the end, on the actual code.
  3. Design never ends • At the wireframing stage we plan

    the project • At the auditing stage we review the wireframes • At the design stage we mockup a design style • At the coding stage we integrate it all together