Most web designers aim at creating an attractive, functional and easily accessible website which will be convincing enough for visitors. Such a website requires intuitive and easy site navigation, good graphic design, good web copy and logical site layout.
The following are some tips which can be used to create a great website.
Simplicity rules! It makes a websites look sleek, reduce nagivation confusion and it helps achieving desired goals and results (I.e., more signups, subscribers and sales). But too often it seems elusive to simplify your website design. No matter how hard you try, you can’t make your work look like Apple’s. So what does a website designer really needs to do? Fret not, for there are 5 starting points to simplify your website design.
When you start out as a web designer, you do all you can to grasp the basic design principles so that you have a solid foundation to start your journey on. As you become more proficient in your craft, you start to learn techniques that are more advanced, and you begin to implement bigger and better things in your work until you reach a point where you feel pretty comfortable to step outside the bounds of the ordinary. What else can you do to take your web designs to the next level?
Here are just a handful of ideas you can consider if you’d like to take your web designs the next level.
As designers we don’t commonly think in terms of structure. Unfortunately this can cause problems in design projects both personal and freelance as organizational issues rise up and bubble through our artwork.
Fortunately there are some changes you can make to your routine which can help to straighten out project work. Granted the setup may be different based on differing operating systems and per-project conditions, but the core ideas will help you implement a much better organizational scheme during your work.
What are touchable web designs? When most people check out a new website, they sometimes think “yikes, this website looks like crap” or “wow, this is one of the best websites I’ve ever seen!” What is it that makes the great websites look so great? In my experience, when I think of “web 2.0” and “great web designs” I think of modern web designs that look touchable. In other words, the elements on the page almost look real, as if they have depth and take up space.
The purpose of this post is to explore how this effect can be achieved, outline the major strategies for creating your own touchable web designs, and give examples of some great web designs out there that have mastered these techniques. Let’s get started!
One thing that we can often overlook, or let slip our tired minds as we work ourselves late into night or early into the morning, is that the typography that we use in our web projects has to interact with and is impacted by nearly every other element that we add in. The typography weaves its way throughout the projects, and sometimes we let these elemental interactions proceed without being subjected to a full battery of tests to make sure that each engagement ends properly without breaking our project in any way. Not just that, but beyond all of its so-called interactions, there are all of the basics that you have to keep in mind as well.
Textured backgrounds in website design are common, especially in grunge designs. But they’re used in a variety of other design styles, too.
Textures can add visual interest to an otherwise-minimalist design, or can add that extra bit of detail that really makes a design pop.
Paper textures are by far the most common, but other regularly-seen textures include stone, concrete, rust, and fabric. And they’re not just used for backgrounds, either. Some sites incorporate textures into every aspect of their design, while others just use them for accents.
Simply put, I am a minimalist lover. From the content focused layouts to the proper incorporation of color, there is nothing I don’t like. Despite its simplicity, it can be very difficult to properly implement. Since I realize it is a hard style to understand at first, I thought it would be a great idea to compose a list of some of the things that I feel are necessary for a great minimalistic design.
Before I go into the guidelines I follow when designing with this style, let’s talk about what a minimalism is.
Sometimes popular web design styles can deter us since we love to create something original. As designers we like to see variety, but of course, our clients like to mimic and see consistency. In this post we’re going to look into some of the more popular web design styles, and further examine why they work. Knowing the design styles that work as they are can be a great way to use those same principles in your next unique design.
All great designers are constantly improving their skills. There has never been a successful designer, or anyone of another profession for that matter, that has stopped at a certain point and said, “Good enough”. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to always be learning new things, and to always be improving.
In this post we’re looking into 20 different ways a web designer can improve their skills at any time. They involve everything from learning new abilities, to changing focus, and to revamping one’s mindset when it comes to design. Check out these 20 methods for improving as a web designer, and feel free to add your own techniques in the comments section!
