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No One has the Perfect Answer.
Here at Treehouse, we’ve interviewed hundreds of the web’s best designers and they all have one thing in common: They’re figuring things out one day at a time. You’re likely to hear people suggest what frameworks, CSS styles or CMS to use, but the only true answer is to find the ones that work for you. No one has the perfect formula, process, or strategy. There is no perfect answer, just the one that’s perfect for you.
Context Matters. :Too many designers start arranging pixels before they have an understanding of who and what they are designing for. Take the time to understand the client or audience for what you need to design so that you can create the right solution. Design is about fixing problems and delighting people. To do this, you’ll need to have context first.
Less is More.: One of the tempting things for clients and designers alike, is to fill their pages with as much information as they can. The internet is a very fast-paced place and visitors need to find what they came for in three to eight seconds. When trying to create an effective design, less is always more.
Making Something Simple is Hard. : Making something simple doesn’t always mean you have less content. Subtracting the unnecessary is only one way to create a simple design. The truth is, that making something simple is really hard work. You have to define a hierarchy of what is important when and where, and find ways to hide, embody or subtract elements until they are necessary. This is one of the most important disciplines to learn as a designer.
Typography Matters. : Oliver Reichenstein, a very profound and important figure in web design, wrote an article in2006 that stated the web is95% typography. It was a revolutionary article at the time because a few years ago the web had few options for typography and it was an image-dominated world. Now that Responsive Design is here, there’s a new emphasis on creating great looking content through the use of good typography. Understand what your audience’s purpose is, like reading, learning, or getting technical advice, and learn to use the proper typography. It will change your life as a web designer.
Know your Color Palette.: Color theory can be really difficult to master as a beginning designer. One of the best ways to hack design n is to find and determine your color palette ahead of time. Many times a color palette can be determined by a brand’s logo, an image, or by finding a color swatch from Küler or Color Lovers. No matter where you find the inspiration for your palette, having a nice set of colors from the beginning leads to a consistent and effective design. (A good tool for experimenting with color is Eyedrop.me).
Content is King. : A big buzz-phrase on the web is “content is king”. Now that web design has undergone a major shift to mobile, that phrase is also, “design with content first” or a content-out, mobile-first approach. This has always been the case for the web no matter what period we could discuss. The truth about the web is that its very foundation is information. How you design information for desktop or mobile matters greatly when attempting to create the best design possible. Content will always be king, because it’s the foundation of the web.
You're the Designer. This is one of the hardest concepts to grasp when breaking out into the world of web design. We’ve heard the adage that “the customer is always right”, but you’ll need to remember that they hired you to be the expert. Clients will always have opinions and they will most likely get feedback on your designs from family and friends, but it’s important that you remember that you’re the designer. You’ll most likely have to educate your clients into hearing your point of view, but if you allow them to create what they think will work, you’re doing them a disservice. Listen to all of their critiques, but only use the ones that get them the best design. After all, it’s what they hired you for. You might have to remind them of that on occasion.
Before being a designer you should take the time to familiarize yourself with project's "life cycle", from in which the first stage is initiation.
Initiation is basically know everything about the project and knowing the goal also, once you get this done you are ready to likely make the right choice for whom is hiring you to do the job.
Yes, grid is one way to go in designing website and I like it. In addition, I would like many designers to start layering their designers in a way that makes it5 minutes easy to change radical changes.
for sure yes to infuse your context correctly with consistency.
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yes very important grid and very good for design
ive never done it in my life. Wonder who came up with it. Its just limitations to your design.
yes it's important to laying the opject in a way to be frindly and suitable to all users
A good designer should not use a grid using photoshop, muse, dreamweaver, indesign, illustrator etc. in creating a website; obcourse tlhe rest of the software i mentioned also can create a website (e.g. illustrator and indesign and photoshop. they use guides the guides detects automatically the center if you drag it horizontally or vertically and smart guides. also you can use a guides through pixels..
i dont thing so
Its not that necessary but making a grid helps in bringing order to a layout,making it easier to navigate through information and also enables designers to quickly add elements.
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