A Case Study

facilitated by the Design Action Collective Team

3rd I Film Festival

Needed to build the festival site so it could launch, before going through the design of the organization site (the two would eventually merge, in a sense)
During the time of the festival, the site utilizes festival specific template/content

Being able to articulately detail the discrepancies between the design and the resulting live coded site/tool
Creating a common language between designer and developer

Are Wireframes a useful tool?
- Wireframing guides the design
- It's a good tool to share ideas between designer and developer
- WordPress/Live wireframing
Challenges/successes in collaborating Wireframe through design through development
- Designers who come from a very strong print background starting to design for web
- Project where you are not involved in architecture/design until its time to commit to code (time consuming, frustrating)
- Clients who aren’t interested in the discovery process under the false assumption that not engaging in one will save them money
- It's up to us to be clear to the client about what we can and cannot do
- How to communicate feelings about the design without hurting feelings
- Mismatch between goals of client and the resulting design
- Clients, us designers and devs are interpreting solutions for you, negative feedback is just as useful as positive feedback
Communication is key