LT week 1 – Creating a Brief

Creating a Brief (6 hours)

I want you to take on a client. I then need you to have a meeting with your client and create a very detailed brief. This brief should contain all the information that will be needed to achieve the client’s requirements.Your brief should cover these sections:

• What is the client’s service/product?
• What are their requirements?
• What is the website’s goal?
• How are you going to achieve this goal?
• Build the website architecture (so we can see what sections will be needed)
• What is the design style that will be required?
• What are your suggestions for marketing the site?

The brief should be good enough to hand over to any design/programming team and get a great result.

I chose to use the company that we are using for the ongoing CA01 as client for this assignment. I feel it is only a good thing getting to know them even better. The client is a fictitious non-profit foundation that raises awareness around how plastic pollution has a mayor impact on our marine life.

• What is the client’s service/product?
  The client is a non-profit foundation that raises awareness around how plastic pollution has a major impact on our marine life.

• What are their requirements?
  The client wants an effective yet simple way of showing the dire effect plastic pollution has on our oceans.

• What is the website’s goal?
  Simple, striking, unforgettable – these are the impressions/feelings the client wants the visitor to have when visiting the website.

• How are you going to achieve this goal?
  Good infographics combined with facts, good colours and making a point of the beauty of the sea.

• Build the website architecture (so we can see what sections will be needed)

• What is the design style that will be required?
  This should be a modern website, angled towards younger people, 15-35 y.o. The infographics should be clean looking, sleek, easy to read.

• What are your suggestions for marketing the site?
  Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are widely used by the target group, and should be a priority. Using Facebook ads might be a good way to spend some of the marketing budget. Also making an effort with SEO will help further the website.

Also part of this week was:

Providing Your Own Hosting Service (2 hrs)

I already did that a year ago, so no action needed at this time. http://www.okibedoki.no is the name I chose. The portfolio I made at the end of my first year can be found here.