So what does it take?
I often get asked the cost of designing and building websites and iPhone Apps; I decided to write a detailed explanation to try and give you a small insight into what is involved. You have a business idea, and without website technology, you can be pretty sure that your business won't work. Wowwee Design is Agency that not only understand your business but build the face of it. In short, we are much more than designers!
Our designs will empower your staff and managers giving you the tools to execute your business plan and bring your business to the next level! Although I work within your industry and assist with whatever the project may be, I often work with other developers, programmers, and marketing teams to achieve results with pretty pictures and the quickest and most tangible way of doing the project. Still, most of all, running the budgets and keeping everything on time.
Starting with a logo to final delivery, we offer project management to deliver the project. The logo is a key to letting people know what you do and how and what your business can do for others. You can view the Lighter Choice logo development on a previous post or click here. When designing websites and graphics these days, we always have to consider that most people use mobile technology, so it is a good idea to have your logotype that fits that.
I wanted to show you how much thought and process goes into this. You can see by the below image we have to work out all the actual spaces that the logo will fit for it to work. So it is a good idea to spend the time early on with the logo development to ensure what works or where the logo might use.
Phone & Android apps and mobile devices are all different in size, so whether its an iPad or a desktop, use a technology called Responsive Layout. With this in mind, that means we code the sites so when you go to use it on your iPad or iPhone, you get the optimal view for seeing this. Most people just take it for granted these days though it is a lot of hard work to bring it all together.
When designing UX, we make wireframes to help the front-end developers achieve the desired results. This project has over 5000 wireframes, but more to the point, we had 20 developers working on this with various skillsets ranging from Magento e-commerce to Systems Architects. They develop the strategy for the data to be saved and backed up. One size can't fit all, or can it?
Part of designing great functional graphics is planning. You have limited space, and now, thanks to Apple's amazing Xcode and developers community, they have created areas where there was none, giving you a much better user experience and a far greater user experience and tool to use. You'll see below is a simple login screen used for the data capture for the business; in this simple Click here to start, 45 options could happen.
So the next time you're taking your website designer or developer, ask him to show you how many designs and wireframes are needed to achieve your result. All I can say is its a lot of work. The menu and structure are crucial. It has to be organised, so it's easy to use, and things are where we expect them; for instance, we hope login's and log out's to be visible location, Top Right or the end of the menu.
It should tell the user what if they might be looking for and really clear; most people don't have time these days to skip around your website trying to find the information they need, I call it 'means jeans theory' they know what they like and know the size they want and don't care how much they cost, as that what they like…but don't ask them would they like a shirt or some new socks…. he's here for his jeans, short and direct.
Each menu item will need navigation and will have to be designed with the user in mind to be able to obtain the correct information part of the design of this project was to create a secondary UX thumb menu on the side so the information could be quickly accessible accessing the databases which are synced to a cloud server.
Users are encouraged to build a profile and keep track of their progress through reminders and notifications. The App uses the technology of the iPhone, the accelerometer, to track people's steps and movement, combined with healthy eating, which is an effective strategy for weight loss. The website and application encourage people to participate in the weight loss program while saving their daily progress.
