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The visual design phase is known as "the fun part." The designers are finally able to stretch their creative wings to brainstorm, conceptualize and produce a look and feel based on the completed upfront work. During this phase, navigation and functionality defined in the Structuring phase are addressed by building an HTML prototype to test and validate the information design. The designers might come up with the most intriguing navigation design in DHTML—but is it producible within specifications? By running these two phases concurrently, you are able to go back and forth between design and functionality and ensure seamless integration of the two.