Discovery is the first phase of the web development life cycle and includes the initial research, information gathering, and collaboration to confirm scope, feature requirements, stakeholders, processes, and expectations. This planning will inform initial project details and first steps on development.
Information Architecture is the structure and hierarchy of how the information on your website is organized. It is helpful to visualize this mapping to give you a sense of how and where content and information will live on your website or web app.
Design in the web development process is creating web-friendly designs for your website or app through the use of colors, fonts, styling, images, callouts, sizing, and layouts. Web design brings life to the new website, giving you a better sense of what the live site will look like. Designs are built on top of your wireframes to retain approved page layouts.
Throughout the web development process and shortly after development is complete, your development team will be focused on Quality Assurance. In this step, a comprehensive checklist of QA auditing is completed to ensure the site meets or exceeds the standards of an efficient, fully functioning website.