Here i’m going to show some life draft of the future of webdesign event. So keep in mind that there can be typo’s and weird sentences. But feel free to comment..
Larissa Meek (agencyNet Interactive)


And here you can see the presenation on Slideshare.
And here you can see my notes of the presenation
1. Make friends with your client
- They are not your enemy.
- Keep realizing the paying money for your work.
- They have another variety of resposibilities
2. Ask allot of questions
- get to know the clients industry and business objectives
- Perform a competitive analysis.
For example: Hotdog
what are they, what are the best way, why hotdogs associated with baseball games, what are the most popular topping, can you eat them cold,
3. Ask more questions (who will be using the site?)
- What is the target age range?
- the user needs can be different as the business objectives.
- use real people for user profiles by your process
4. Use wireframes. But don’t be tie to them!
- use it as an conversation starter
- use them to indicate content priority
- it’s ok to make small changes
- get you clients to think about the functionality for your site.
- make you wireframe to scale
- walk your clients to the wireframe. The see it as lorum ipsum and blocks. Clients see it visual nog functional. You have to help them to walk though it.
- For flash site you don’t do wireframing but storyboarding
5. Talk about your design before you open photoshop.
- Before you start the design, you have color palets, a moodboard a styleguide references of other websites which were discussed with the client
- As and designer you have to understand the style guide.
- Use site examples & Color palettes to show what will be you design direction
6. One design direction will do.
Give them allot options is not a good option. Because then you are going to combine two concepts.
7. Present in the browser.
- show it in a browser.
- don’t show it through a email. You have to link them to the browser.
- Provide notes. Provide proper documentation.
8. Prototyp as needed.
- If you do a webapplication it can be very handy.
- you can check the user experiences.
(Fireworks allows you to make rapidly fast prototypes. )
9. ask for consolidated feedback. Limited rounds of revisions.
- educated your client on the importance of providing consolidated feedback.
- collect al the feedback and combine them to one document.
- too many cooks in the kitchen. Limit the feedback possibilities of the client.
Tips to get the feedback you need.
help you r clients to focus on the user needs.
10. be confident in your work
- Don’t fall in the trap of asking your clients what’s right.
- be a friend and be teaching them
11. time will tell
- With time your client will understand the design
- The client will understand the revisions
12. make the most of a difficult situation
- Stay positive
- be optimistic
- work with them not against them.