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Designing a baby-centric site isn’t an easy task, especially for people like myself who usually favor masculine themes, colors and textures in their designs. Today we’ll tackle this task head on by creating a fun and unique baby announcement site that’s far from typical.
It was just over three years ago when I embarked on becoming a web designer, and the first opinion piece about the state of web design I came across was a conference talk by Elliot Jay Stocks called ‘Destroy the Web 2.0 Look’. Elliot’s presentation was a call to arms, a plea to web designers the world over to stop the endless reproductions of the so called ‘Web 2.0 look’.
How do you make decisions? If you’re like most people, you’ll probably answer that you pride yourself on weighing the pros and cons of a situation carefully and then make a decision based on logic. You know that other people have weak personalities and are easily swayed by their emotions, but this rarely happens to you.
In today’s marketplace every company needs a strong online presence to compete effectively. Corporate web sites today typically have a huge impact on the brand and how customers seek information and dialog with the company.
While non-profits are always working with limited budgets, they have a need for an effective website and a growing number of organizations have recognized this need and placed a priority on the website. Here are some examples.
Mac OS X is known for housing an amazing graphical user interface. Getting more popular and famous in the world of designers, this operating system already counts a lot of usable applications that can improve our work.
The evolution of the web and the way in which we design for it has brought around all kinds of patterns, standards and best practices. Sites have a relatively uniform information structure: We always start with a home page (also known as the front page or index page) as the default page, and we’ll have common pages such as a contact page, an about page, and so forth.
Humans are logical creatures, and as surprising as this might be, when we visit a website our minds make a series of decisions that affect the actions we take. The ability to reason enables us to form judgments, reach conclusions and make decisions.
Transparency is one of those things that can really add depth and make a website design pop – when it’s done right of course!
Colleges and Universities have a need for an effective website to help with attracting new students as well as for serving the needs of current students. These sites typically contain huge amounts of information, which only makes it more challenging to design an attractive and usable website.
