5 sources for current web design best practices.
1. http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/9-essential-principles-for-good-web-design/
- Precedence (Guiding the Eye)
- Spacing
- Navigation
- Design to Build
- Typography
- Usability
- Alignment
- Clarity (Sharpness)
- Consistency
2. http://webdesignledger.com/tips/good-web-design-is-all-about-the-user
- Suitability
- Speed
- Clarity
- Don’t make users think
- Don’t squander users’ patience
- Manage to focus users’ attention
- Strive for feature exposure
- Make use of effective writing
- Strive for simplicity
- Don’t be afraid of the white space
- Communicate effectively with a “visible language”
- Conventions are our friends
- Test early, test often
- Don't clutter up your site.
- Be careful not to overwhelm your visitors on your home page.
- Don't use a hodgepodge of design ideas.
- Extreme symmetry is a yawner. Use the Rule of Thirds.
- Don't forget about the visitor.
- Don't let your site content grew stale
- Colors-One of the key components to a website design that will speak to your customers is a great color palette.
- Typefaces-Fonts, or typefaces, should also be picked based on the personality of your company and the feeling you wish to convey to customers
- Pictures and Graphics- choose pictures and graphics that display your products in the best light possible
All these sites are easy to use and have a lot of graphics.
For number 2 on the list i would add a search button on top.
All the sites I love are entertaining and let me add things, play games, or give me information fast. They are all useful.
3 Good vs. 3 Bad sites
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