Web Design

Don’t get us wrong - we’re more than happy to work with some instructions scribbled on a napkin. But having a solid starting point, specifically a good creative website brief, can make the process of gathering quotes and working out what you need almost fool proof. We thought it might be worth highlighting some of the best we’ve seen and how it helped the client get exactly what they need.

We now have more devices and input modes then we have ever had to consider before. We need to think about how our websites will respond to desktops, smart phones, iPads, kindles, netbooks and fridges with computers built in them. Don’t laugh, you know you want one.

Your site will break. It may just be a small html error on a static page, or your checkout page will start spitting out 404 errors. Something, somewhere, will break. And users will see this. In answer to this inevitable fact, defensive web design will minimise damage, and keep your audience on track.

Defensive web design (or contingency web design) is about intuitively responding to things going wrong on a site...

Monash University's Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, the University's largest faculty, approached Mintleaf to help deliver a new home page for the faculty website.

The existing website was very large and it was decided that the best way to get started was to start with the home (or entry) page for the Faculty. The initial project required:

• High level Information Architecture (IA) & Usability Analysis
• Visual Design for the home page
• Web Development support