Revising Web Design to Deal with Current Development Practices

Website design practice has evolved a lot. Websites are no longer designed from scratch but based on existing designs and patterns, and very often they are implemented using Web Content Management Systems (WCMS). Given all this support, it seems that the traditional web design methods, developed in the past, are no longer relevant. However, we argue that they still have a role to play, but they should be adapted to the new development practice and exploit this during the design process to make the development of a website easier and faster while still guaranteeing a well designed and usable website. In this paper, we show how an existing website design method, WSDM, has been adapted to take current development practice into consideration while still respecting the core principles and benefits of the method.