This week’s topics
Website Planning and Business Requirements
- Identifying client needs and target audience
- Information architecture and sitemaps
- Wireframing and responsive layout design
- Defining functional specifications
- Stanford CS105: Introduction to Computers | 2021 | Lecture 14.3 Responsive Webpage Design
- How to Define Your Target Audience in Under 3 Minutes
- How to Do Market Research for Your Online Store | Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Certificate
- Planning a mini website
What you will be able to do
- 3.1 Be able to create or modify components of websites to meet business needs.
- 3.2 Demonstrate that a created website meets the defined requirements and achieves the defined purpose.
Activity
Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: be able to create or modify components of websites to meet business needs.
Study materials
Videos
- Stanford CS105: Introduction to Computers | 2021 | Lecture 14.3 Responsive Webpage Design · YouTube · Stanford Online · 16 min · for registered students
- How to Define Your Target Audience in Under 3 Minutes · YouTube · LivePlan · 3 min · for registered students
- How to Do Market Research for Your Online Store | Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Certificate · YouTube · Grow with Google · 3 min · for registered students
- Planning a mini website · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students
Further resources
- Foundations of Information Systems, 4.2: Defining User Requirements · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 128–133 · for registered students
- Planning a mini website (slides) · Reading · Oak, slides · for registered students
- Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), ch. 10: Information Systems Development · PDF · Other, textbook chapter · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
