Monday, 24 March 2014

Formulating Ideas and Designs - 8w3

LO: To plan and storyboard your website in line with User Needs
LO: To understand the importance of the planning stage in relation to the systems life cycle

Outcomes - you can tell me or someone else why the planning stage is important and have started to plan your ideas on paper. 

STARTER:

What does your website need to do / look like / "be" like?

Make a list!  Call them User Needs.

Why plan? Why make this list? 

MAIN 1

Now you have identified your User Needs you are going to start planning your website on paper.
This is a very valuable process. Why would this be fundamental in real life?

Website Design Process

Create something like this. What software will you use and why?
What pages will you need? Why ?

Mini Plenary - at this stage, how does your website meet the needs of the Users that you identified in your Starter? 

MAIN 2 - (Extension) 

Complete your website evaluation that we started last week - Remember to PEE

MAIN 3

Start storyboarding....

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Plenary 
Why is the planning and design stage important within the systems life cycle?  
How has today's lesson helped you formulate your own ideas for your website? 


Homework - Due Wednesday 2nd April

Finish your planning for homework.  
Complete a storyboard for each page outlining what images you intend to use, font, layout. 
More importantly explain why and how your user needs will be met and how designs will address your target audience.