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XMG’s 5 Stage Design Process
We follow a comprehensive design and development process for all projects. This process ensures the timely delivery of a quality product and enables the client to be involved at every key stage throughout the project lifecycle.
The key stages are:
1. Discover
Working with the client to understand short and long term goals, determining measurable success factors, undertaking competitive analysis.
- Undertake requirements analysis
- Define long/short term goals
- Establish measurable success factors
- Undertake Competitor Analysis
2. Define
Creation of a detailed project plan including functional, creative and technical specification, schedule and quality assurance plan.
- Create project plan
- Approve project plan
- Define team
- Agree payment plan
- Setup development environment
3. Design
Creation of sitemap, page component breakdown and design concepts to demonstrate how the site will look and work before building commences.
- Create sitemap
- Create template wireframes
- Create functional component breakdown
- Create UI design concepts
- Client approve design
4. Build
Intensive building and testing period
- Setup test environment (bug tracker)
- Slice and optimize design concepts
- Create XHTML/CSS templates
- Create AJAX UI elements
- Develop and integrate Liquid functionality
- QA testing
- Bug fixes
- Acceptance testing and final approval from client
5. Launch
Site launch followed by a project evaluation against the measurable success factors
- Setup Analytics
- Move the website/application to the live environment
- SEO Optimization
- Launch
- Invoice final payment
- Agree maintenance plan/team
- Invoice maintenance payment
- Feedback and post project review