Sunday, April 17, 2011

Oil Company website design assignment

Duration: 16 weeks
Guide: Prof.K.P.Rao, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati
Key Words: Web Design, Interaction Design, IA

Design of a complete HTML website for a start-up Oil company. The website should focuses more on the advertising propaganda at the same time providing all other features like placing orders, feedbacks etc. The project was completed as an prelude to a course work on interaction design. The branding identity and logo were also created as a part of this project-assignment work.

Project Specification and requirement study on the existing websites of oil companies and understanding the various facilities and features that are available. A few non-Indian oilcompany websiites were also analyzed so as not to miss out on any key features that might be relavent to the present design


Block Analysis - DFD and Feature Analysis Deciding on the CSS and the layout of the website based on the study of the oil company websites. A detailed analysis of the layout of information was presented to the guide panel. After the approval the stage moved on to creating the website.


A few basic Paper Wire frames showing the layout that got approval. The final design was made with slight changes to this based on feedbacks of the guide panel.


Detailed Paper wireframing - Followed by wireframing in MS Visio


Concept Generation and Usability Analysis


Final Prototype


Final Prototype


Final Prototype


Final Prototype