Behind the Wheel of Web Redesign: What Drives Success

Presenter: Kelly Goto
Broadcast on Thursday, October 06, 2005
Duration: 90 minutes
Cost: $129

An effective online user experience is created with visual design, information architecture, and usability, using iterative development cycles. In this 90-minute seminar, web redesign veteran Kelly Goto will walk you through methods to streamline and enhance your current development process with a focus on both the end user and measurable results.

Kelly will explain how the concept of User Experience fits into brand vision and effectively serves customers online. The session focuses on understanding how business goals translate into an iterative web development process targeting short term goals with long term vision. Learn how to write an effective communication brief, and understand how to user-profiles and personas clearly match overall company objectives by focusing on targeted audience needs. Take a look at real projects, deliverables, and the working process behind the scenes.

Please note: The web recording of this seminar is no longer available. However, the slide handouts and full-text transcript are posted for Premium Plus members.

You Will Learn

The five-step redesign process
How to determine short- and long-term goals
How to write a communication brief with implementation strategy
How to develop audience segmentation breakdown and characteristic matrix
How to create generic and specific audience profiles, personas and scenarios
How to incorporate iterative cycles of development and testing into your workflow
How ‘brand boards’ can help facilitate decision-making from stakeholders and set the brand vision of a company in a short timeframe
How iterative usability testing cycles, contextual interviews and ongoing customer feedback can facilitate a more effective overall development process

Who Should Attend

In-house marketing teams and individual consultants will take away strategy and methods to create deliverables that can be immediately applied to real-world marketing environments.

About The Presenter

Kelly Goto is a sought-after lecturer and instructor on the topics of web development, information design, user experience, and usability testing. Formerly an award-winning creative director at Idea Integration (www.idea.com), Goto successfully managed the redesigns of many sites ranging from independent to corporate levels. She has acted as creative director, designer, and producer for many high-profile clients, including Warner Bros. Online, National Geographic Online, Adobe Corporation, Paramount Television, Macromedia Corp., and Sony Pictures.

Currently a principal at gotomedia, inc. (www.gotomedia.com), an online consultancy for user experience and interaction design, Goto continues to focus on developing new techniques for collaborative development in digital media. and user-centered design principles. Kelly is a member of Bay Chi organization in San Francisco and is on the board of the National AIGA Center for Brand Experience.

Her best-selling book, Web Redesign: Workflow that Works, has become a worldwide standard for workflow methodologies.

What Participants Said

Of the participants who evaluated this seminar, 91% would recommend it to a colleague. Some of their comments:

"This was a great presentation, so I highly recommend listening to it. It had very good ideas not only for Web redesign, but also ideas for usability testing and organizing/managing marketing campaigns."

"Great example of web design process, including resources (the numerous book titles mentioned, and her own web site resources)."

"It is informative and presented in a very matter-of-fact, realistic manner, with many real-world examples or battle stories. Very clear."

"Kelly is someone who truly understand the mechanics of developing or revamping a website."

"Not only does this provide sound ideas for redesigning your web site, it provides marketing ideas for your business. This provides justification for the redesign to take to the decision makers in the company."