Digital.gov Guide
Developing and communicating your design
This guide provides tools and approaches for developing and communicating your design.
Overview
The approaches included here will help you to communicate your design concepts to your team and stakeholders and test the concepts with users. Approaches include:
Visual design
Learn how to communicate the visual style for your designs
- Style tiles
Design patterns
Methods to help you establish reusable design patterns to ensure consistency
- Design pattern library
User interactions
Methods and techniques for analyzing and documenting user interactions
- Storyboarding
- Task flow analysis
- User scenarios
Wireframes
Use wireframing for a low-fi way to communicate preliminary designs
- Wireframing
Prototyping
Use prototyping to communicate and the structure of your design
- Prototyping
