Epicenter Design
Start from the core of the page and build outward
Epicenter design focuses on the true essence of the page – the
epicenter – and then builds outward. This means that, at the
start, you ignore the extremities: the navigation/tabs, footer,
colors, sidebar, logo, etc. Instead, you start at the epicenter and
design the most important piece of content first.
Whatever the page absolutely can’t live without is the epicenter.
For example, if you’re designing a page that displays a blog
post, the blog post itself is the epicenter. Not the categories in
the sidebar, not the header at the top, not the comment form at
the bottom, but the actual blog post unit. Without the blog post
unit, the page isn’t a blog post.
Only when that unit is complete would you begin to think
about the second most critical element on the page. Then after
the second most critical element, you’d move on to the third,
and so on. That’s epicenter design.
Epicenter design eschews the tradtional “let’s build the frame
then drop the content in” model. In that process, the page shape
is built, then the nav is included, then the marketing “stuff”
is inserted, and then, finally, the core functionality, the actual
purpose of the page, is poured in to whatever space remains. It’s
a backwards process that takes what should be the top priority
and saves it for the end.
Epicenter design flips that process and allows you to focus on
what really matters on day one. Essentials first, extras second.
The result is a more friendly, focused, usable screen for customers.
Plus, it allows you to start the dialogue between designer
and developer right away instead of waiting for all aspects of the
page to fall in line first.

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