2022. April 13.
IT design development is about helping your business move forward. They aim to make interfaces and mechanisms more efficient, faster, and more user-friendly. Design development is a collaboration between the IT team and the client. Let's see step by step what the process looks like at SynerinSoft!
The design process plays a crucial role in development. A well-designed user interface, together with the user experience, can capture and retain the attention of visitors and ultimately generate purchase and interaction. Therefore, the design of the interface is of great importance, and nothing should be taken for granted in the design process.
Let's look at the steps the customer and the IT team at SynerinSoft go through together!
1. Understanding the task
The client and the customer must understand each other, otherwise, processes can easily go sideways. At SynerinSoft, we treat customer communication as a priority and do our best to understand the customer's needs and ideas. We also consider it essential to convey important information clearly and concisely, free of unnecessary jargon.
The brief, the specification and the insights are very helpful to understand the stages. Describing typical users, i.e. user personas and user stories serves this purpose as well. These all help developers to understand the context and the users even better.
2. Creating a user journey
During the design phase, the journey of the site visitor and the app user is defined. Where they click? Where will they spend their time? These are the crucial questions. Based on the insights, it will be decided how the information should be presented, how the page should be designed, and how the visitor can be guided if the goal is to make a purchase or to contact someone.
3. Prototyping
Based on the wireframe of the website a prototype is created, which does not yet look like the result but is clickable and usable. This will allow the site to be tested, and based on the results, iteration, improvements, and refinements can be made.
4. Competitor analysis
The process also includes time to assess the competition. The analysis will help to identify industry standards and patterns, and to learn and be inspired by common practices. It also reveals where the site needs to be strengthened and where there are pain points that could be improved.
5. Build a Mood board
The purpose of the mood board is to convey the mood, style, and world of the site. This is the next step in the design phase when the designers create the mood board.
6. Building a UI Library
The UI Library is a set of user interface elements, a set from which you can choose according to your needs. It is created by considering the design. If there is no identity, the theme, and the industry itself provide the framework, the inspiration for the architecture, and the elements, the use of colours, typography, icon style, buttons, illustrations, etc. are created based on these.
7. Create UI design
Following the wireframe and using the UI Library, the UI design will be created. If required and needed, this will also be a prototype that can be tested and iterated.
8. Preparation of documentation
It is essential to have documentation of the process, this could be important in the future.
9. Design handover to developers
Once the design is complete and the documentation is in place, we can move on to the next stage of the process, which is the development itself. So, the completed design must be prepared and handed over to the development team.
10. Follow-up
The design process does not end here. Follow-up and cooperation with the developers will certainly be needed in the later stages of website development.
Design development and preparation are important for success and should be a major focus. It is useless to have a website that works well if it fails the design test, and of course, the reverse is also true. What is your dream website?
Let your imagination run wild and at SynerinSoft we will make it happen!
