Chapter 6. Constructing and Evaluating Your Design Solution

The work we have undertaken over the past two chapters has helped us to shape and refine our design concept leading to a visual specification that we believe will most effectively deliver against the requirements of our project. This completes our preparation work and we now move away from concepting and towards construction.

In this final chapter—and last stage of the methodology—we look at the broad variety of options for building our solution and the remaining important tasks to undertake before launching.

We will run through a selection of the most common and useful software applications and programming environments to help you select the most appropriate tool to match your design requirements and technical capabilities.

We will look at some of the key considerations around testing, finishing, and launching a design solution as well as the important matter of evaluating the success of your project post-launch.

Finally, we wrap things...