Mastering the Design Process

Design is more than creativity. You must produce designs that provide real business value, even when faced with difficult stakeholders, scope creep, and iteration hell. In the course, you’ll learn a robust process to successfully take your design project from initial briefing to final delivery, avoiding common pitfalls. Gain new confidence in your design direction, and develop a strategy for managing client feedback. Most importantly, you’ll learn to get the design sign-off as painlessly as possible!

• Introduction
• Design Project & Avoiding Pitfalls
• Design Principles
• Design Process Issues
• Speculative Design
• Better Design Process
• Discovery Phase
• Prototyping Phase
• Build & Live Phases
• Defining Stakeholders
• Design Process Q&A
• Initial Design & Content
• Content Process & Content Blocks
• Critical Pages and Q&A
• Wireframing
• Design Style & Aesthetic
• High Fidelity Mockup or Prototype
• Presenting to Stakeholders
• Design Presentation Agenda
• Handling Feedback & Disagreements
• Handling Scope Creep
• Design Presentation Checklist
• Keeping Development in Mind
• Design Systems
• Design Systems Q&A
• Post Launch Optimization
• Post Launch Optimization Process
• Final Checklist
• Final Design Process Q&A
• Wrapping Up