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Information Design—Week 2, Assignment 1

What does Jesse Garrett refer to in this term “building from the bottom up”? What are the advantages in creating interactive projects in this manner?

Mr. Garrett describes a five-step process to building a Web site—strategy, scope, structure, skeleton, and surface—when he speaks of “building from the bottom up.” The advantages to building a site following this methodology is that you will have a good idea where you are headed before you ever write a line of code. You will have already decided what your users want and need, and will have defined your site’s functions and delivery method in clear and practical ways before sitting down to create the actual user interface.