to display an updated campus map on your homepage as part of your website redesign. You decide to label certain routes on the map with red and green lines to mark the fastest way to navigate around campus, including to the new student orientation. However, with approximately 8% of men worldwide and 0.5% of women currently living with color blindness, there is a good chance that an incoming student will not be able to distinguish between the different routes on your map, and would not be able to tell which route leads to student orientation without more information. By designing with accessibility in mind from the start, you can provide alt text for the map
image distinguishing routes or include text directions on the map. Now you've provided your user with a positive experience instead of answering a call from a confused student (or frustrated parent) and having to go back and adjust the homepage image after the fact . 4. Create mock pages and prototypes It can be difficult to envision wireframes or sitemaps employee email list as a functional website. Although they both display the layout or architecture of the information, they generally do not display the style, color, or overall graphics. You may have no idea what the finished site will look like after looking at a wireframe. Creating page mockups in Photoshop or creating HTML prototypes offers
a more complete picture of the finished project and provides a tangible vision of the website to share with stakeholders. If you're doing this in-house, PSDFan has several great examples on how to develop your own and convert them to HTML. If not,Again, it's better to take the time to prototype now than to end up with a very different website on screen and in print. 5. Adopt a true mobile-first approach Take a mobile-first approach by creating and optimizing your design for mobile devices before adapting it to desktop and laptop computers. Is this all starting to sound familiar? Spend time on your website redesign now to save time later. And it's true, because you never know what might happen later - from December 2010 to December 2014, smartphone usage increased