I teach a unique class called The Free Web Clinic where my students make websites for real clients who want upgrades and who can then decide at the end of the semester whether to keep the new site (they almost always do).
We’re in the design phase right now, and we use Lucid for all the things you might expect: Wireframes, Site Maps. Here are some wireframe diagrams my student newspaper webmasters made.
What’s special is our “contracting process” which is how we get new clients for the free clinic. Here’s a Lucid process chart of that process.
We also use Lucid mind maps to help learn about new clients that have missions that are unfamiliar to us. For example, we’re redesigning sharinghousing.org and made this mind map together before we had our first meeting with the client, based on what we gathered from their current site.
I just wanted to share how incredibly helpful Lucidchart is to help my students’ design thinking and design communication with our clients!
-Bram
