At White Fuse we have found that many of our clients do not have the budget for rigourous and repetitive user testing. We have been experimenting with various techniques in our design and development process in order to get the best user focused designs for websites using tight budgets and small timeframes.

1. SUPER RAPID USER FOCUSED WEB DESIGN

2. @crispin_read
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3. WHAT AM I TALKING
ABOUT?
• Design decision styles
• What we do at White Fuse
• ReCap
• Questions/ how do you work?

4. DESIGN DECISION
STYLES
• Unintended
• Self Design
Design
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• Genius Design
• Activity-Focused Design
• User-Focused Design
Src: Five Design n Styles BY JARED M. SPOOL 2009
http://www.uie.com/articles/five_design_decision_styles/

5. WHAT WE DO
• Identify user groups, main tasks and landing pages
• Create matrices based on our findings
• Define user journeys
• Create wireframes and prototypes
• Test and review
• Design and build

6. IDENTIFY USER
GROUPS, ACTIONS AND
LANDING PAGES

7. CREATE MATRICES
AND
USER JOURNEYS

8. WIREFRAME
AND PROTOTYPE
[programming_is_creative]

9. DISTRIBUTIONS
...or your own preferred modules
in a sandbox site

10. DEVEL GENERATE
To create loads of content for
you to play with

11. BETTER CONTENT
Create demo site as a starting
point with real (ish) data

12. NODE CONVERT
Reuse existing fields
A B Testing

13. FEATURES
To package up your prototyped
stuff and move it to dev or staging

14. RECAP
• Cooperative design YAY
• Distributions or your own sandbox are key
for fast set up
• Usea combo of DEVEL, NODE CONVERT
and FEATURES to get your prototype
together in super quick time
• Make tea and profit

15. @crispin_read
WhiteFuseMedia.com/blog
CrispinRead.co.uk