As Benjamin Franklin once said: ‘Failing to plan is planning to fail’. This is especially true when it comes to web development.
As someone who has been involved in the process of developing more than 200 web projects, both as a hobby and in a professional capacity, I can personally tell you that any of the projects I have worked on that have skipped this step have failed.
Planning involves taking all of the information gathered in the first step and putting it into the cycle that the entire process will follow. This means separating the information into separate sections for design, content and programming. Once this is sorted, you will be able to start creating an individual plan for each of the relevant teams to proceed.
At DQ Media, we use this phase to map out the features to be developed by creating technical specifications for the programmers to follow. Additionally, we strip down the specifications to provide them to the design team so that they are aware of all pages and features that require design.
By doing it this way, we allow the programming team to start working on the bare bones logic that will power the system, while using a completely clean layout. And the designers then have additional time to polish the final design that is implemented.
If the project is not technically complex, and requires mainly design and content, the programming team will not be involved at this point. Instead, the design and content team will plan together to produce the design and content for the programmers to implement.
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