Be able to talk to communicate effectively with designers to get the product you're after.

1. Designing for
Government
Ali Felski
Sunlight Foundation @felskia

2. Why design is
important

3. step 1

4. think about your
project goals
(make them measurable and specific)

5. be touchy feely
(used a shared language to communicate
effectively about design)

6. step 2

7. take slices
(set up a timeline so that you’re checking
in with the designer on a regular basis)

8. mood board
(sample of what the design may look like)

10. wireframe
(structure of the site)

12. comp
(flat design of what the site will look like)

14. buildout
(turning the comp into HTML & CSS)

15. card sorting
tool: http://uxpunk.com/websort/

17. community reach out

18. step 3

19. ask a lot of questions
(make sure every one is always
on the same page)

20. step 4

21. try not to be
prescriptive
(beware of the frankencomp)