Website Design Best Practices

The opportunities for web design are multiple and enormous, particularly with the tools offered by Web2.0, and so are the challenges web designers face.

Bondonneau eSolutions apply a set of principles and processes to guide us in delivering a site meeting our client's expectation and that will provide his customers with content, usability, overall satisfaction.

Know your client

  • The web designer is not the client
  • Why does the client want a website?
    Goals and requirements for the website
  • What is the client’s industry and what is his perceived position within the industry?

Involve your client

  • The creation of a website is a joint effort with the client being involved at every step
  • The iterative process (Design, Prototype, Evaluate) involving the client ensures that the website that is delivered meets his expectations

Know your client’s customers

  • Understand the elements and balance the forces
  • The competing elements of every design are:
    • the customers
    • their tasks
    • their technology
    • their social con­text

Each of these elements has certain capabilities and limitations that exert forces on the design of the website. To create a successful site, the designer must understand and balance these forces so that none dominates and each is considered in the final design.