
Erica Heinz demystifies the six foundational elements that launch any web project: project outline, site map, brand guidelines, user stories, paper wireframes, and usability testing. By investing time in these steps upfront, you'll move faster and more confidently through the build.
Whether you're handing sketches to a developer or coding the site yourself, this 52-minute class equips you to organize content, structure user flows, and validate your direction before committing to design details.
Create the 6 fundamental elements of rapid prototyping to start any web design project quickly, efficiently, and smartly: a project outline, a site map, a set of brand guidelines, several user stories, quick paper wireframes, and a usability test. Taking time with these simple steps speeds up every project.
Demystify the first steps of any web design project in this 52-minute class for designers, beginning front-end developers, and anyone curious to design a site from scratch. Erica Heinz provides practical instruction in information architecture, user experience, and paper prototypes so you can develop content outlines, sitemaps, brand guidelines, user stories, wireframes, and usability tests—all the elements you need to start a web project right. Whether you hand them off to a developer or build the site yourself, you’ll love having everything organized from the start.
Want to build the site yourself? Check out the next two classes from Erica Heinz: Web Design II: Visuals for UX and Branding and Web Design III: Responsive Design with HTML and CSS.
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Taught by Erica Heinz — Designer\/Developer
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