Team having a project planning meeting

1. Define

First, we need to learn who you are — if it’s a new relationship — and what you want to achieve. We must understand your business, your values, your audience and your objectives. From that, we’ll define the project scope to ensure we propose something to exceed your and your audience’s expectations.

Designer using a graphic tablet with colour charts to the side

2. Design

Once you’ve signed off the project scope, we’ll get designing. We'll produce a content outline, in the form of a wireframe prototype or a ‘document map’, to explain what goes where. On the creative side, we'll generate a set of design visuals to allow you to feed back on the proposed look and feel.

Laptop on a desk with code on its screen

3. Develop

When the content outline and the design visuals have been approved, we’ll build the main deliverables. We’ll turn designs into code and/or develop the graphic assets. With your help, we’ll create the content for the finished product. Finally, we’ll test to make sure we’re happy with what we’ve built.

Open white box sitting on a table

4. Deliver

Then it’s over to you. You’ll get to review and approve a website before it’s deployed, emails before they’re sent and print proofs before they’re printed. But that’s not the end of the journey. When a project is finished, we’ll be there to support you. And to repeat the process and iterate the product, if you wish.

Iteration is the fundamental basis of all improvement.
Mark Manson, author and blogger

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