Process
Every project is different. Timeline, goals, budget, deliverables, measurement; they'll change between every project. What won't change is the process in which we attack your problem.
Research
Every project starts with research. This is the crucial first step in the project process. We work together defining the problem we're trying to solve. We lay the foundation of the project with discussion. We'll set timelines, budgets, goals, deliverables, all that stuff that you're paying me to deal with so you don't have to. Most importantly, we'll define how you plan to measure success.
Ideas
After the research is complete, we start the creative process. Exploring what will work this time and ideas that will be better next time around. Pen meets paper here. Sketching, sketching and a little more sketching. Lots of paper gets thrown away in this stage. Promise.
Build
Oh, goodness. We've found some ideas worth working on. Sketches become websites, brochures, books or logos. Social media plans written out on the back of a napkin get the attention they deserve. Here is where you get to show your significant other my work and they hate it.
Refinement
But don't worry! They're allowed to hate it! That's what husbands and wives are for, right? That's why we have the refinement stage. We work hard ironing out the wrinkles, rubbing out the kinks. Hopefully we're almost done.
Repeat
What's that? We're not done? Well, this optional step is for you. Sometimes, you just have to repeat a step or two. Usually this step gets used when enough time wasn't spent on previous steps. Grandpa said, "If you don't have the time to do it right the first time, what makes you think you'll have time to do it right the second time?" Grandpa was a little crazy but he was spot on there.
Measurement
Your project is done! Over the course of the project, we've established how you'd like to measure the success of the product. Whether the product is a social media plan, a community organization plan, a book or a website, we have to measure how things are going. If you aren't measuring your project, then how are we going to know if we succeeded or if we have to do a repeat?
