We are proud to announce that our latest website www.sportsister.com has gone live this morning. Sportsister is an online sports magazine for women, with interviews, kit reviews, events and more!

After a crazy January start, I finally found a couple of minutes to catch up on some reading and research within the design world…

I just read this great article about paper prototyping, which reminded me of a project we just finished. We had been asked to redesign 2 portals in only a couple of weeks! This left us with a fantastic and exciting project but limited time to carry it out. After a first electronic start we soon realised that we would never meet the deadline and produce something amazing at the same time. This meant we had to pull our heads together and try a different approach, which lead us to pen and paper. This method saved us time and mainly meant that when we finally did go back to the computer we just had to make 1 digital mock up with a few minor amendments.

I would recommend to not only read the following article but try it out yourselves.

Paper Prototyping (A List Apart)

Just a quick update that the new Coull website is live.

Check out the new www.coull.biz website.

See our case study page about the project.

One thing I have noticed recently is that it is becoming increasingly popular to chart the process of a web project. People basically post information about what they are doing and how they are doing it - with various levels of detail. At the fully detailed end of the scale is Carson Workshops development of their new web application - Amigo. These guys are trying to give the full story of how they are developing their second web application and do this through video, images and traditional blog articles.

The more traditional sharing of the process is what the guys at iconfactory have done with a 6 stage animation that shows they are building a whole new site. This is more common as kind of countdown to a big launch.

We have a new site we will be launching soon for a company called Coull in Bristol. You can check out their current site here. We reckon it will be going live next week and we are pretty excited about it. Although it’s quite simple at the moment, both the guys at Coull and us have big plans for it. So watch this space!

This could be fun - maybe we will chart the process of our next project?

Well that’s enough for me, let us know if you see any other examples of charting a project process and we’ll add them to this article.