Our typical process is described in a bit more detail here:

	Define the Work Flow and Functionality Requirements & Technologies General Requirements: It is the intent of the User Interface Requirements Document to serve as a dynamic guide and ongoing reference for all project stakeholders involved. In addition, during the execution of a project, the Project Management Plan will be utilized. Also the preferred technologies will be determined to best suite project scope and scalability.
	Create Visual Flow Chart X  Visual Work Flow Review: The user interface is as much a work flow as any of your business processes. Identifying and addressing user expectations and logic are the most important phase of the development process. Get this wrong and subsequent repairs will exponentially increase required efforts.
	Develop Static Wire Frame Work Flow Proof of Concept Web Site Wire-Frame: Wire-frames– combined with Site Maps -are core tools of information architects. Web site wire-frames are useful for conveying the general page structure, page flow and content requirements for individual web pages. This is referred to as the content architecture. Often there will be basic user testing to flush out potential user issues before starting UI design.
	Design and Implement User Interface Graphical User Interface: Implementing the graphical user interface (G.U.I) commences once the final content architecture is approved by the stake holders. Close collaboration between application developers (engineers) and UI designers now becomes imperative for clear understanding for efficient and accurate interaction between the interface and back-end.
	Perform Usability Testing Usability Verified: Before the application is fully built another user interface testing phase is performed to verify UI elements support the intended application flow derived from the wire-frame work flow proof of concept. Objective users, those who have not yet observed the application are inducted to give accurate results.
	Develop and Implement Functional Application Application Development: When all the preparation, user testing, and designing is completed the application is built. The programming is written and the back-end developed and prepared for real users. This includes yet another phase of testing, usually performed by Quality Assurance engineers. For small web applications such as simple forms and such this is not required, simple client testing will suffice.

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