Modern Web Design
Web Design Basic.¶
key point:¶
- Flat design - simple 2d design, used these days to have clear description and good user experience. eg: ios6 vs ios7.
1. Typography¶
- most of your website will be text content.And so it's quite important to make that content good-looking and easy to read for the user.
- choose the right font. (san-serif, sarif.)
- Good practice (Guildlines):
- heading - 60px to 90px
- Body text - 15px to 25px
- line spacing - 150%
- char lenght per line - 45 to 90 char
2. color¶
- Pick one base color for entire website.
- Never use Black.
- Red is a great color to use when power, passion,strength and excitement want to be transmitted
- Orange draws attention without being as overpowering as red.
- Yellow is energetic and gives the feeling of happiness and liveliness.Also it associates with curiosity, intelligence.
- Green is the color of harmony, nature, life and health. Also it is often associated with money.
- Blue means patience, peace, trustworthiness and stability. It is associated with professionalism, trust and honor.
3. Images¶
- Overlay the image with color and use text on top of it.
- put text in box while displaying it over image.
- blur the image.
- Floor Fade -> Image fades to dark near text(text is brighter).
4. Icons¶
- creates confusion to user if been used properly. hence necessary to under to use correct icons.
- use it for action and links
- use it list features/steps.
- label icons
- use icon fonts - so that icon will get blured in high resolution devices.
5. spacing¶
- use whitespacing to define visual hirarchy perfectly.
6. Presentation¶
Type:
1. presentation of product in site
2. presentation of User experience - its not linked with design and look of product, but how used interacts. input.