Time for the Briefing or the Panic

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Oh! Ion is Rock Content’s platform for creating content and interactive pages, and the tool we use to build The Beat on a weekly basis. I’ll talk more about that soon. For now, we continue with the initial planning of the newsletter.  Attack? Once we defined the objectives and designed the project, it was time to start structuring the ‘face’ of our newsletter. To accomplish that, the content team and I held a briefing meeting to align our expectations for the project. This right here is usually the moment when people have amazing and really crazy ideas, and I have to say no! At our briefing meeting, we decided what The Beat project should have.

Fixed menu on the side; Form for subscribing to the newsletter; A space for the editor’s note; Sections with a different layout: Jam Session, Interviews, Quote of the Week; Interactivity: Quizzes; Reactions; Animated Graphics; WOW moment in America Mobile Number List the last section; As a designer, at this point, my main concern was to develop a layout that could be easily updated and that catered to all the items the content team brought. Let’s work! Building the layout Initially, we thought of using one of the Ion templates. But as this project is very personalized, I realized that the best option was for it to have its own layout.



My process For me, it’s much easier to create and visualize the layout when I draw it in my notebook. Let’s say I make low-fidelity mockups. As you can see, it’s not very elaborate. It’s actually a simple design, but it helps me visualize how to arrange the different elements on the page. Remember the list of things we decided The Beat should have? The result looked like this: Fixed menu on the side The fixed menu on the side was definitely one of the features that took the most work.