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martes, 24 de julio de 2012

Para una buena estimación en costo y duración de un proyecto de Look and Feel

Se puede tornar dificil evaluar todas las variables que se deben tomar en cuenta para la estimación de un proyecto de branding. Es por eso que les comparto una serie de recomendaciones al momento de levantar requerimientos.


Has your company undergone any recent rebranding?

If yes, how long ago did it occur?

Do you have access to design support files?
Style guides
Layered design compositions
Font files for both Mac and PC
Images (approved and purchased photo libraries)
Screenshots of existing designs

Does the site have a name?
If yes, how is that name represented: text, logo, URL, other?

Do you need a custom logo?

What are the logo specifications?
Size
Treatment
Color

Will there be multiple logos?
Corporate logo
Site logo
Divisional logos/images
Others?

How much customization is required?
Home page (customization of just the home page)
Site level (customization of only one site)
Portal level (customization of all front-facing pages (not admin or My Site))
Site collection (customization of all areas including admin and My Site)
Master page and page layout (customization of master pages and page layouts)

Do you need to change or include additional icons?
Drop-down arrows
Bullets
Chevrons
Input buttons
Document icons
Page-level icons

Who will be approving these designs?
Marketing (how many members of the team and who specifically?)
Board Executives (how many members of the team and who specifically?)
Project Managers (how many members of the team and who specifically?)
Others?

How many design reviews do you consider necessary?

1st round (2–3 comps): 1 day for review; 1 day for revisions
2nd round (2 comps): 1/2 day for review; 1/2 day for revisions
Final round (2 comps): 1 day for review; 1/2 day for revisions
1 day for approvals and sign off


Each department or office has its own design

Each site or functional area has its own color scheme
Portal
Team collaboration
Projects
Communities
My Sites
Each web part has its own header style


What type of treatments do you consider appropriate?

Gradations or flat colors
Rounded corners
Transparencies
White text on dark background
Tabbed navigation
Pixel lines for separation
Shadows

What branding style is appropriate?

Simple or complex
Bold or soft
Heavy imagery or soft color transitions
Heavy or light web-part title bars (Chrome)
Sharp square edges or soft rounded corners

What types of colors will be used from the approved color palette?
One color with tints for section definition
Many colors
Complementary colors
Soft, blended transitions
Hard edges between colors
Primary color with secondary color accents

What level of imagery is appropriate?
Large, bold marketing images
Soft watermark images to fill empty spaces
Enlarged, cropped images

What types of business rules will be applied?
All external links (open in new window or open with same page)
Fixed-width design versus liquid (resizes with browser)

Are there any accessibility requirements?
Need to accommodate for color blindness
Navigation cannot rely on just color alone
Need the ability to increase the font sizes in navigation components and content for users with poor visibility
Need the ability to navigate using only the keyboard

Does custom global navigation need to be created?

Do you want your site to have the same navigation on every page? If so, then you may need a custom global-navigation control

The top navigation control does not span multiple site collections


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