
The Client

How to Design for A Client
The most crucial part of web design is
designing for a client. Each step created in the
design process revolves around the ideal of meeting a client's
needs. The first and most important step in designing is to
create
a strategy with the client. Meet with and find out what the
client wants and how you think you will start to achieve those
goals. After this you typically follow the next several steps of
the design process. With developments and refinements, designing
for a client eventually becomes a success by the time the web site is
manufactured and launched.

A Creative Brief
Creative briefs have become an important
and necessary aspect to the web design process. A creative brief
is an outline of instructions, a schedule of deadlines and research
needed to create each part of the web design process. A creative
brief is necessary for the design process because it gives the designer
and
client the direction and guidelines that the site will be headed in.
How to Create a Creative Brief
Create a summary
Create a summary of the project that is
being entered into
Describe Current Status
Describe the status of the web design
process at the current time and the status of the client/ designer
relationship
Create Project Proposal
Create a proposal of what the project is,
what is needed and what will be accomplished
Describe Requirements of Project
Describe what is needed from the client and
outside sources
Describe Timeline of Project
Create and describe the timeline for each
step of the design process and when the expected completion date is