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    • 🎨How to create website templates
      • 🎋Design starts from data
        • 1️Creating logical data paths
        • 2️Planning for exceptions
        • 3️Defining clear, logical rules
        • 4️Other data design elements
      • 🗺️Think about the viewer's path
      • 🗃️Filter options, defining ranks for content, and more
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Design starts from data

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Profile-driven design emphasizes the use of pre-existing data to populate a website. Gone are the days of having to manually update a website every time a researcher publishes a new paper or gets a new grant. Think about it, they already have to update their Uniweb profile, and by extension their CV, so it makes perfect sense to reuse that data, does it not?

To reuse this data, there are a few more steps in the design process that need to be completed by the designer and more things that need to be planned for such as

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1️Creating logical data paths
2️Planning for exceptions
3️Defining clear, logical rules
4️Other data design elements