This is the first draft of the User Experience timeline of a WCM/ECM SharePoint Project. I found myself drawing this on cocktail napkins at Sharepints and thought I'd pdf it for discussion. The primary objective of creating this graphic was to explain the approximate onset of visual design in a user-centric SharePoint project. I'm interested in hearing your ideas.

1. SharePoint User Experience Design Project (WCM/ECM)
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Research & Requirements UI & Usability Visual Design Development Testing & Launch
Requirements
Project Management
Planning User Research & Testing Site
Deployment Check
(Envisioning, Walkthrough
Requirements Schedule & budget
Project Management) Site Strategy
Physical Architecture
Content inventory
Content
Content analysis & Development
Development
& Analysis Content Type Hierarchy Content Migration
Process & Task Analysis
Site Map Page Pattern Analysis
Final Design
Page Wireframes Review
Page layout(s)
Visual Design
Design Master Pages & Custom CSS
(UI, IA, IxD) CSS Overrides
Deployment
Features Packaging
System Test UAT
Custom Development Functional Test
WCM Platform Hardware
(SharePoint Installation
& Config) SharePoint Environments (Dev, QA, Prod)
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Graphic by Marcy Kellar