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Questions part 6: Aftermath and beyond

There’s life after launch. Reassessing, maintaining and adjusting the website requires critical evaluation from time to time. I often tweak sites with questions like these. Part six of six.

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Questions part 5: Launch

Rather than the end of a project, launch is a milestone in a digital project’s lifetime. Part five of six.

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Questions part 4: Refining

Most digital projects I’ve worked on treat user testing as a last-minute event, if it occurs at all. If I’m lucky enough to have time for problem solving before launch, I ask these questions. Part four of six.

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Questions part 3: Testing

User testing can reveal funny (or disasterous) observations about a digital project. Accepting and dealing with the difference between expectations and reality requires a sense of humor and asking the right questions. Part three of six.

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Questons part 2: Design

No two apps or websites, are the same. Neither are the roads between concept and first draft. But questions arise from wading knee-deep into code and pixels. Part two of six.

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Questions part 1: Concept

How should one start a website or app? Everyone has different questions in the beginning. These are mine. Part one of six.

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When is web design not a product? When it’s a process

You can often tell a website whose owner thinks design is a product. They’re the ones with slick edges and generic guts, where paragraphs flow into a given space like gel into a bucket. If the text is well written, you wouldn’t know it from the slapdash presentation. It’s like a $100 Merlot in a [...]

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Using FAQs as content launchpads

In the past, I had trouble with vague ideas. Fighting my own limp-wristed attempts to frame content, I discovered that most topics can be phrased as a FAQ. Since questions spawn questions, thinking in FAQs turned out to be a useful mind-mapping-like tool as well.

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