What You Can Expect From Sydney’s Leading Web Design Agency
For years, we’ve been providing modern and brand defining website design and our process has been tried and tested as a result of our commitment to our clients and their vision. While it’s simple and straightforward, it provides the backbone to quality website development and achieving digital objectives. We’re proud of the reputation we’ve built as one of Sydney’s best web design companies. Let’s start a journey of digital transformation for your business!
Initial Consultation
All of our projects start with initial consultation where we get to know your organisation and you get to meet the team behind Designpluz. You’ll discuss your project with our UI/UX lead and project managers, gaining an understanding of our process and answering questions to help clarify your goals. We write a tailored proposal which includes everything you need to excel above your competition, then we present it to you to answer questions right there and then.
User Interviews
Upon project approval and commencement, we hold a meeting to discuss your user personas and plan user interviews which inform our design process and help create a good design fit for your actual end users. You’ll provide us with a contact list and some information about who we’re going to interview, we write tailored questions which we’ll ask during the user interviews and have you review and sign them off before we begin.
Workshopping
With an understanding of your user base, we hold an in-depth workshop with key stakeholders to discuss all the small details about the website, from a design and development perspective. We’ll run through some important questions, such as “What action do you want your users to take?” and then we’ll challenge your answer, fostering a collaborative relationship dedicated to the end goal. We discuss your competition, design influences and benchmarks, images, brand guides, functionality, sitemap, integrations and more.
Wireframes
Wireframes provide you the general “feel” of the website design which we’re embarking on, allowing you to focus on a stripped back version of key pages, so that you can dial down on certain elements before it becomes more complex. A wireframe is a black and white structure designed using one of our design tools, such as Figma or Adobe XD. You’ll be asked to focus on layout, feel, buttons, font, header, footer, Call-To-Actions and provide detailed feedback, which we’ll discuss in an online meeting via screen share. We’ll iterate, update, and finalise the wireframes before continuing our design process further. While your brand guide is considered at this stage, it becomes more evident in the UI/UX design stage below.
UI/UX Designs
This is where things get interesting, we implement your brand guides in full, adding colours, images, vector designs and more to help you visualise exactly how the website will look. While we do provide basic hover effects for you to consider, these designs are functionless, you view them in the browser and scroll up and down but they have no backend development attached. This gives you a great visual experience of what the site will look like which you can share with your team to gather feedback. We design a multitude of pages, including the homepage and other key pages such as services, about, contact us, news post, blog post, products page, products index/listing pages, registration forms and more.
Development
Once all the designs have been reviewed and approved, we begin development in our staging server. You’ll get updates on how the development process is going throughout the duration and you’ll review the site at two primary milestones: desktop and finally mobile. You’ll be able to see the recreation of our static designs as they come to life through actual software development. You’ll provide any feedback such as image changes and text updates, although in most cases there’ll be little to no changes because of our in depth design phase.
Optimisations & Testing
Once we’ve completed your desktop feedback, we begin optimising the software for all different screen sizes, from large to small, as well as different browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox Safari and Opera. You’ll review the site again just prior to going live on all of your devices, this is a great time to share the site with your team internally to get any final feedback before we plan to go live.
Hosting & Live
We launch your website during a quiet time in your business, often after 5pm to minimise interruptions to your users. Depending on the type of website, we might distribute login information to migration customers so that they can access their account at launch, or might send an EDM on your behalf announcing the website launch. We host our websites through Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide the fastest, most secure hosting option for our clients. Websites hosted with AWS are lightning fast and provide an amazing experience for users.
Post Live Services
As a digital agency based in Sydney, we offer a multitude of services which support innovative businesses looking to capitalise on the digital space and the success it can bring. While our websites are optimised for initial ranking through google based on our on-page SEO development, we offer off-page backlink building services which help boost your websites ranking and drive traffic and leads, subsequently resulting in more leads and higher return on investment. Looking for a more immediate boost in user interaction? We also offer Google Ads services
