Project Design Proposal
insert Project Design Title here
Design Manager: insert your name here

Table of Contents
Overview 3
Design Aims 3
Scope 3
Design Outline 3
Objectives and Outputs 3
Key Assumptions 3
Proposed Evaluation Methods 4

Overview
This section should give a brief overview of your design aims and how you propose to meet them. You should be looking at 2 – 3 paragraphs here. This section is best written AFTER you have completed the rest of the document. Remove this text when you have completed the section.
Design Aims
This section is where you outline the aims of your design. This should be reasonably high level and give the AIMS of your design. This tells the reader HOW you propose to meet the user requirements without going into the details of screens, colours, widgets, etc. You need to talk about the CONCEPT that you have for the design and WHY you are doing it this way. This is an extension of your Vision statement and allows you to sell your design concepts. You’ll probably want to very briefly refer to the principles of design that you are using here to reinforce your argument.
Scope
If the scope has changed from your project brief, then update it here now and explain what has changed and why.
Design Outline
Here you need to list all the major outcomes of your design project and tell the reader how you will deliver them. You need to describe what you are going to deliver along with an outline of each deliverable. This may include preliminary wireframes for each of the major screens, and should include a brief description of major components and/or task sequences. If the design is to be delivered in phases, make sure that everything is grouped in the correct order in each phase.
Objectives and Outputs
This is a critical section. Here you list your user requirements and objectives and then show how each section of the design meets them. This can be done as a list, a table or even a requirements matrix. I’d suggest a table in the document as it’s much cleaner and easier to control.
Key Assumptions
Have your key assumptions changed?These will need to be reviewed as you proceed. List all your key assumptions, and any changes here.
Proposed Evaluation Methods
How are you going to evaluate the design when it is finished? Here you need to outline your evaluation plan and how you will analyse the results. This doesn’t need to be a full plan yet, this is an outline, but it should contain enough details that the plan itself can be evaluated for completeness and appropriateness. A list of steps is acceptable at this time, provided that it comes with some explanatory text.