I never really thought about my process for design as a step by step procedure. After reading Douglas Bowman’s “A Design Process Revealed” I realized I do have a bit of a process of my own. I follow a few of his basic steps with a change here or there.

I start with acknowledging what the project is and why and who I am doing it for. I keep in mind my audience and my medium. I check out what others have done or even my own similar work. I check out what works what doesn’t work and write down all my ideas. Then I start sketching out what I think would look good, different layouts, styles, ideas. Then I take what looks like it would work best to photoshop and start laying down my main ideas for the pages, like color scheme, navigation, text size or font, different images sizes and shapes and locations. I never thought about laying out text the way he does. I think that’s a great idea to find different fonts that work well together to get a good feel for what the page will look like in the end. After spending some time on my work, I like to take a break before I get too attached to a single idea and let other people look at it and let me know where the ups and downs of the different layouts are. Then I keep working on it tweaking details here and there until I am happy with it or the project is due.