Live Website Redesign: Build It In Six Weeks?

On episode 39 Tony Wong challenged the ThisWeekIn Web Design team to get to the business of building the minimum viable product of ThisWeekIn's new website in under six weeks. With the help of designer Aure Gimon and programmer Jacob Pittassi, Jose and Tony will lay the groundwork for this challenging sprint, live for the viewer. This isn't an episode, this is the team planning for a product with the intention of going live in less than two months. When ThisWeekIn Web Design says "watch us work", we mean it!

Category:

• Science & Tech
• Learning & Education

Starring:

• Jose Caballer
• Aure Gimon

Directed by:

• Ian Hinck
• Branden Lymer

Produced by:

• Matt Raub
• Ryan Summers

Tags:

• Tony Wong
• Jacob Pittassi
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• dreamweaver
• logo
• logo design
• color theory
• typography
• web design
• web
• design
• tutorial
• software
• Aure Gimon
• Web Design
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• World Wide Web
• Demo
• Mobile Device
• Software Tutorial
• Media
• Digital
• Digital Media
• how-to
• how to
• build
• CSS
• Fireworks
• tips
• tricks
• website
• site
• html
• video
• flash
• mobile
• Graphics

[kiriappeee]

@stevewa000 it's recorded on youtube. how much more recording do you need than that? ;P

[thegroop]

@Kaludify Roger that.

[thegroop]

@Kaludify That is a great idea. I think it would give great context!

[Kaludify]

Would'nt it be great to have a tour feature on site like "New to ThisweekIN? Take a Tour" and then user takes a tour on how the site works. I think it will be helpful for new users..

[Kaludify]

Don't forget to add "Episode number & Date" in homepages or where ever you display the show list

[Kaludify]

Use Livefyre.com for the comments. I'm not a Facebook user but i'm a hardcore fan of Thisweekin network., SO i won't be able to comment.

[stevewa000]

@ 0:57:00 are you leaving any time for refactoring code, documentation, capturing things that need to be fixed / enhanced in the future? how would you convince your client that they really need this important part, even though it seems like it is not a critical part for their deliverable, they do need to budget for it, so they can start the next phase running, instead of wasting precious time trying to recall what needs to be done in the next phase?

[stevewa000]

@ 0:44:00 oh you actually want to have these types of planning conversation during a scrum planning meeting? I thought it was a waste of time, and this was just supposed to be for scheduling the work to be done for this week's sprint

[stevewa000]

@ 0:36:00 it's nice that you are having all these design discussions about user experience, current problems, and possible solutions, but this should not be done during a scrum meeting. those issues should already be worked out ahead of the meeting and be recorded as items to schedule during the meeting. and I also notice a lot of talking, but not much recording (writing down) of what decisions where made. Since you do this only once a week, hope you don't waste time hav 2 review wat u forgot

[stevewa000]

and YES your website needs to have a way that users can comment on the videos, because these youtube comment length restrictions really ruin any good feelings i had about this series!

the comments should be categorized into 3 groups:

- kudos "good video",

- comments, and

- questions,

so we don't have to read through a bunch of "hey good video i like web design" garbage to find interesting discussions.