I often get asked the cost of designing and building websites and iPhone Apps, I decided to write a detailed explanation on to try and give you a small insight into what it is I really involved.
So 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!
I’m a designer that will empower your staff and managers giving you the tools to execute your business plan and bring your business to the next level! I work within your business and assist with what ever the project maybe, I often work with other developers, programmers and marketing teams to achieve results with not just pretty pictures but the quickest and most tangible way of doing the project but most of all running the budgets and keeping everything on time.
Starting with a logo to final delivery we offer a 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 chick here. When designing websites and graphics these days we always have to take in to consideration that most people use mobile technology so its a good idea to have your logotype that fits that.
I wanted to show you how much thought and process really goes into this stuff. You can see by the below Image we have to work out all the actual spaces that the logo will fit in-order for it to work. So its a good idea to spend the time early on with the logo development to insure whats works or where the logo might be used.
iPhone & Android apps as well as mobile devices are all different in size, so weather its a 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 but its really is a lot of hard work to bring it all together.
When designing UX these days we make wire frames 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 different skill sets ranging from Magento e commerce to Systems Architects who 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 Apples amazing Xcode and developers community they have created space’s where there was none, giving you the 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 there is 45 options that could happen. So the next time your taking your website designer or developer ask him to show you how many designs and wire frames are needed to achieve your result. All I can say its a lot of work.
The menu and structure is crucial it has to be organised so its easy to use and things are where we expect them, for instance we expect login’s and log out’s to be visible location, Top Right or the end of the menu. It should tell the user what it 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 ‘mens jeans theory’ they know what they like they 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 a 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 design 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 there progress which is done through reminders and notifications. The App uses the iPhones technology the accelerometer to track the peoples steps and movement, this combined by healthy eating is a significant strategy to weight loss. The website and application encourage people to take part in the weight loss program while saving their daily progress.
