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Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu
I have yet to run in to a typical design firm that spends weeks of doing market research, typing of pages and pages of webdesign analysis, so on and so forth. That is what "careful market research" implies -- something tediously professional, requiring some kind college degree to do it correctly. Obviously not something any of us can do. (But who knows, maybe things have changed since the last time I spoke to a webdesigner.)
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I know some of the people that work at these places, and people who have been clients. They say that research is easily the biggest part of the process.
Clear Left
Happy Cog
37signals
And naturally, there are also the "careful market research"-esque, professional, and college degree holding
Nielsen Norman Group, who are dedicated to UX and Web Development.
I believe any successful website is entirely dependent on research. Whether that research is "careful market research", professional, and college-degree-requiring, or is just spending time thinking about who you're targeting and how they will use the website, or if there is even a difference... you'll have to figure that out.
In my opinion, the direction on the website will inevitably have to go with how CJ plans on marketing Graal -- as one game, separate games, for players, or for developers -- if at all.