how do u design?
- Started
- Last post
- 16 Responses
- smartK
I'm about to design a flash site for the little agency I work for, I'm completely free to do what I want ...
How would you start? surf around for inspiration, grab pencil and paper, launch flash and just place the logo and start playing .. ?
I have no idea ...
- jevad0
wtf?!
i jsut replied to this and then it went away....
- cajo0
I would start with a paper and pencil and try to organise what the little company wants to comunicate on the web. why the web? Goals, etc. then I'll try to go for a conceptional idea, and how to do do it1 Flash, or html, video, Director. do I need special pictures, special copywirte? and then difining the graphical line and nevigation design...and so on!!
I hope it helps
hast and good work
- unknown0
I'd go to college if I was you...
- jevad0
hahah phubar - ya cunny funt
- stretch1160
I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning!
- stretch1160
A box of fresh conte felts, a mister man comic and a porno!
- smartK0
yeah jevad, the thread disapperaed, I reposted it.
thx everyone for the constructive answers ( ;
- kpl0
goals and methods always first. then sketches.
- corin0
go outside, think about something else.. then wait for inspiration to hit, if it doesn't hit within fifteen minutes choose an animal base your concept on that, keepp pushing the animal(it can include plants too) concept even if it seems to fit in no way whatsoever.. after you have filled ten pages with concepts about the walrus, or treefern or whatever the perfect idea should come to you... maybe
- bull0
I get ps open and doodle with whatever assets I have while thinking about aims, objectives, functoinality etc.
Usually get some happy accident or other that ends up featuring in the final design.
It's a good way to get your juices flowing
- rasp0
youve got to ask yourself why the fck youve been asked to do this job if you "have no idea"
?????????
wow
- crazypenis0
i always start of fkn around for 2/3 of the time i got.
Then i panic, start messing around in a way comparable with Bull's technique and am always a little too late, but result is good
- ********0
paper. pencil pad. Always workd for me, never go into it with no idea digitally speaking.
- marcoantonio0
Analysis first, don´t matter if it´s ´documented´ or in your head only. Figure out purpose, objectives, ´must have´s, corp identity, what they´re trying to communicate.
Then I ´become the client´ (read mags, and everything I can find out about the client´s business) -- then I ´become the user´ -- same deal, from the end user´s perspective.
That´s the ´absorption´ stage. Then I finally sit down and an image seems to just ´appear´ in my head based on everything i´ve found out. Then it´s a matter of putting that image into a visible format (usually a PSD), get approval, embellish it, put a layer of ´make up´ on to make it sexy, and finally cut up and implement.
That worx for me.
- g0
do a ton of research, brainstorm ideas until you're tired of thinking, then go to sleep and dream about it...then wake up, you'll figure it out in the shower.
or not
seriously, do your research, then sketch / collaborate your ideas with someone you trust and pay attn. to the happy little accidents along the way.
- paulrand0
eternal dialectic between faith in universe and fear that universe doesn't care