Tips to keep in mind while working with Web UI Designers

Every client is looking for the best website for their business and when it comes to design website, you should be careful dealing with designers in-order to achieve best results that are suitable for your users. After all it’s not just a designer but client as well, who contribute to a great web design.

At Dit India, we strive to achieve best for our clients and here are some tips I am including that I thought will help some one trying to achieve best design results.

1. Communicate your ideas clearly

Designer can help transform ideas into concept when they are clearly defined. Do some ground work, browse some competitors site and other great design sites and figure out what’s the way you want to go. If you already have your branding guidelines defined, see what will work best for you. Try to be as descriptive as you can and Include examples in design brief. To help our client better we have compiled a list of questionnaire
that can help you put together your ideas.

2. Don’t rush

This is something easily can spoil the design quality. If you don’t give enough time to designer, he won’t have time to weight different options and choose what’s best for you.

When you ask for multiple design comps in the beginning, it cost you more time and money. Why to pay for something you are not going to use. At Dit India, we rather focus on deliver something you will like in first shot. We take time understand you and your business, ask lot of questions at the requirement level and do wireframing to make sure we design what you really want. This eliminates the need of multiple design comps, and the extra time and money as well.

3. Wireframe is a good thing

Wireframe can help build interaction, iterate the concept quickly and rapidly and without putting lot of time and efforts. It can help take important design decision before its too late. You can use the wireframe to present concept to other stack holders or decision making persons. Work with designer until you have perfect wireframe(s) that has every bits and pieces and than move forward to the final visual design.

4. Good design is not just about look and feel, its a experience

Don’t just run after great look and feel, usability and ace of use is also important to achieve better user experience. At Dit India, our designers know how to achieve greater balance of both and what works best for your users.

5. Seek design feedback and test with actual users.

Your users are the one who is going to use your website or web app, not anyone else. Engage them in design process and seek feedback at each step of design process and see what they feel about it. Iterate and test again.

6. Don’t compare your design with irrelevant sites

“I want to make my website similar to Facebook” Every design is different. They float on it’s own ideas and the kind of business you do. Give it a thought what look and feel your website (or web app) should have, what message you want to convey your users etc and decide based on that.

7. Simplicity is best. Don’t over complicate

In terms of look and feel and usability, simple design always work great for your users. If the things can be achievable with simplicity, don’t insist designer to over complicate it.

And that’s not all

Obviously that’s not all of it, there are quite lot more things to keep in mind. I will keep updating list and if you have any suggestion feel free to post in comments below.