Master your next Freelance Project

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After learning programming or designing, you've to start taking freelance projects but what to do after you'll get freelance project..? I'm going to share the framework `Analysis Phase Framework` that I'm using over the years to get more clarity about the project and client's mind and that will help you to make a better freelance project.

The questionnaire is a more important task for your client to understand their project requirement more clearly before starting out any project.

I've divided this framework into 6 parts:

Phase 1: Business Analysis

In this phase you've to understand about company and what exactly the client wants from you by asking the following questions:

company name:_________ Address:__________
Phone:________ Email:_________

Question 1: Describe your business in few sentences?
Question 2: Who is your target customer/audience?
Question 3: What makes your company remarkable? Ex: Being the cheapest, having awesome customer service, fast or free delivery, guarantee or return policy, etc?

Phase 2: Website Analysis

This phase is to understand the pain points, goals of the clients like:

Question 1: What do you like about your previous branding/website?
Question 2: What do you dislike about your previous branding/website?
Question 3: What are your expectations for the new website?
Question 4: What's your primary goal for the site? Like: Increase brand awareness, encourage sales, Educate their audience, etc.

Phase 3: Competitive Analysis

This phase is to understand the about the competitors of your client:
Question 1: Who are your competitors that are providing the same services?
Question 2: What are some sites that you like the style of, features, and functionality of?
Question 3: What do you currently like about your competitors’ website?

Phase 4: Branding Analysis

This phase is to understand the branding guidelines of the client company:
Question 1: Do you have any specific color and typography palette that need to be used in your project?
Question 2: Do you have imagery (photos, video, or illustrations) that will be part of the design?
Question 3: Do you have any logo for this project? If you have then can you provide me with the artwork files or you want a new logo?
Question 4: Do you have a tagline and a mission statement? Question 5: Apart from website designing, what are the other things you want like e-catalog, etc? If no then say NA.

Phase 5: Functionality Analysis

This phase is to understand the particular functionality that clients want in the website or app or product like:
Question 1: Will you require a responsive design (adapts automatically to mobile devices)?
Question 2: What functional requirements are needed within the new website? Like: Photo Galleries, Words by previous customers, Contact form, chatting, etc.
Question 3: Will you want a single page website/Single landing page or multiple page website?

Phase 6: Budget and Timeline Analysis

We all are doing hard work to get money. So we have to understand the timeline and budget of client before saying yes:
Question 1: What's your expected timeline for this project?
Question 2: What's your budget for this project?