Once you select the 2-3 promising thumbnails, you would usually produce a Design Rough. A design Rough is an intermediate step between a thumbnail sketch and a finished Comp. You will choose one of the thumbnails or peice several together to produce either a drawing or a digital layout.

A "Comp" is short for comprehensive. It is a design/artwork ready to present to your client or for yourself that is nearly finished. It may not be functional but is a digital version of your Design Rough that puts together your design concept in terms of imagery, graphic elements, and type as it would likely appear.

Click here for Word documant form to use for Activity One:
Comp

Activity #3 Make a Storyboard of Your Website

Directions - A storyboard is a hierarchical chart, a decision tree showing the relationships of your pages. The organizational structure suggests the navigation but isn't the navigation for the site. It is a structure that shows how content will be grouped into pages and the relationship between those pages.

Create a storyboard for your site. Indicate some design content/elements and page functions for each page and NAME each page with: 1) a page title and 2) a file name.

I suggest you either:

1. Pencil sketch it - or -
2. rough it on paper then do it with post-it notes; when satisfied with your first draft, make an organizational chart of the post-it notes and attach them to a page as a parent/child hierarchy. - or -
3. Use Illustrator, Word, or other software to create it.

Example of a page (post-it) note: