Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan an interface design
- Obtain and study the project brief, navigation plan and technical specifications for a multimedia product
- Discuss the concept and specifications with relevant personnel to identify the design concept or metaphor
- Identify the budget, technical and resource constraints to ensure that all requirements are considered during the design phase
- Clarify the client and user/audience needs in order to identify the format of the interface to be used
- Develop the interface
- Visualise the concept and develop preliminary sketches
- Develop and present a series of roughs to relevant personnel and discuss the various merits for selection
- Continuously evaluate new ideas and incorporate them as appropriate
- Develop a final detailed sketch taking into consideration all ideas generated
- Gain approval from relevant personnel to ensure that the interface meets all requirements
- Create the interface
- Use appropriate industry standard software to create screen design, applying visual design principles to all screen elements
- Ensure all elements, screens, transitions, sequences, pages and buttons are integrated to conform to the basic design concept or metaphor
- Ensure all elements conform to the specified technical requirements
- Develop a prototype version of the interface and experiment to ensure its utility
- Evaluate the interface
- Present, discuss and evaluate the interface design prototype to relevant personnel, obtaining and noting detailed response, comments and any required changes
- Incorporate design changes to complete interface design
- Obtain final agreement from relevant personnel for finished design to ensure that the design brief has been achieved