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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine project requirements
   • Analyse project brief to identify purpose of, and target audience for, digital applications
   • Consult with clients or relevant personnel to clarify project requirements, including project timelines
   • Identify target audience characteristics and determine how these influence design
   • Identify content and application functions and how these are accessed, searched and delivered
2. Research digital applications
   • Research digital applications and analyse how these meet audience, function and content requirements
   • Identify issues relating to delivery platform and technical and industry standards, and determine how these may affect digital application options
   • Consult relevant personnel to confirm all digital application options are considered
   • Select applications that will meet creative, production and technical requirements
3. Draft design specifications
   • Design architecture of digital application to show interrelationship of various components and screens
   • Specify interactive features, functionality and navigation
   • Identify content and data displays, and specify how these will be logically structured and integrated into and/or generated in the digital application
   • Specify levels of access permissions as required
   • Specify media assets as required
   • Specify user interfaces, taking screen sizes into account
   • Specify report generation if required
   • Specify production requirements, including appropriate testing strategies
   • Produce draft design specifications and instructions for design and development teams to use
4. Review and confirm design specifications
   • Use a range of techniques to present draft design specifications, and discuss with client
   • Review designs against creative and technical requirements, and client and audience needs
   • Adjust designs as necessary after discussions with relevant personnel
   • Clarify ownership of intellectual property to comply with production and organisational requirements
   • Confirm, with client, acceptance of design specifications, including deliverables, milestones and timelines

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

research digital applications and analyse how they meet audience, function and content requirements

design specifications for digital applications that:

meet client and audience requirements

are technically feasible

detail all aspects of the application’s permissions, search capability, architecture, content, assets, screen designs, functions, reports, production requirements and testing strategies

present and discuss draft specifications.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

explain the sequence and interrelationships of stages in the process of designing digital applications

outline issues relating to technical standards and platform functions that may impact on digital application options

outline the impact of web standards on the design of digital applications

describe typical formats and techniques for documenting the design of digital applications

describe the concept of intellectual property rights and how this is managed in context of digital applications.

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