10 Web Design Dont's (for graphic designer)
1. Do not start a layout, without a concept / idea.
Before you begin, ask: Who am I to design this? What are the preferences of destination? How can I do better than the competition of the customer? What will be my central "theme"? Would revolve around a certain color, a certain style? Will it clean, grunge, traditional, modern etc? What is the "wow factor"?
Then, before moving on to your favorite part – everything that is true in Photoshop, no? –Take a sheet of paper and sketch your idea. This helps to improve the organization of the elements and have a general idea if the idea would work or not before investing too much time on design in Photoshop.
2. Do not be obsessed with trends.
Shiny buttons, reflections, shades, swirls and swooshes, grunge elements – all these are staples of modern web design. But with just about everything else, moderation is the key. If you do everything brilliantly, it ends onlygiving your visitors an eye sore. If everything is an accent that distinguishes more.
3. Not all equally important
The equality in society is desirable, but not take on the elements of the webpage. If all securities have the same level and all the images in the same amount, visitors will be confused. You have to be their eyes directly to the page elements in a specific order – the order of importance. A title should cover story, while the other is subordinate. Take a typical image (in my head, maybe) and keep the other smaller. If you choose more than one menu on the page, which is one of the most important and attract visitors to view it. Create a hierarchy. There are many ways you can control the order in which a visitor reads "a web page.
4. Do not lose sight of the functionality
Don only use items that because they are cute to give – they have a legitimate place in your> Design. In other words, not to be (unless you are designing the website of the same, of course), your customers, but for your clients and customers.
5. Do not repeat yourself too much and too often
It 'easy to get tempted to reuse elements of their design, especially if you master perfectly. But do not want to watch your portfolio as needed for the same client, it was created? Experiment with different characters, new types of arrows,Border styles, layer effects, combinations of colors. Finding alternatives to your go-to-elements. Impose themselves without following the layout design of the head. Or without the use of high-gloss elements. Break your habits and keep your style collector.
6. Not to be overlooked is the technology.
If you are a coding of the site, ask your programmer and find out how to implement the site. If there is a good flash, then you want the advantage of great opportunities fordesign and not to make it look like a standard HTML page. On the other hand, if the site is dynamic and database-driven, not too funky with the design and make the programmer's task impossible.
7. Do not mix and match elements of different designs to suit your customers.
Instead, offer your expertise to explain how different elements look great in a certain context, but not in another or in combination with the work of othersElements. This does not mean that you should not listen to your customers. Take account of all its proposal, but do so at their own interest. If what they propose does not work, design-wise, it offers arguments and alternatives.
8. Do not use the boring as any other stock photos
Representatives lucky customer support, the success (and politically correct) business team, the powerful young – are just some of the cliches of the field of stock photography.They are sterile, and most of the time to look in a false, that the very idea of reflecting on society. Instead, try using "real people", or the search more difficult for both creative and expressive images.
9. Do not try to reinvent the wheel
Be creative in your job description, but do not try, you are creative with the things that should not change. Containing heavy or portal-style site, you want to keep the navigation at the top or left side. Do not change the name for theStandard menu items, or for things like shopping or list. The more time a visitor should find what you're looking for, then the more likely they leave the site. You can bend these rules when you design for other creative people – will enjoy the non-conventional. But as a rule, not to other customers.
10. Not be in conflict
Stick with the same fonts, borders, colors, alignments for the entire site, unless youhave good reasons not to do so (eg if the color code various sections of the site, or if you paid a children's playground where you need to use different fonts and colors). A good practice is to create a network to ensure all the parts to build the same level of compliance. Reconciling items that the site offers an image that visitors become familiar with.
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