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Design, design, design. To put the wonders of a good website design into
perspective, imagine a when we are purchasing a T-Shirt for example. First of all, what do
we look at? The design of the T-Shirt, how it looks...of course. Well most people do, other
than the fabric factor. But let’s assume the all other factors are constant,
wouldn’t the shirt's design or looks, become the key aspect to make a selection?
Stepping in to Web Design
Putting oneself in another individual’s shoes is a crucial step in designing
your website. Here are another two
design situations for thought.
Situation A : A website with good design and awesome graphics. (Good color
schemes with matching theme), pictures. (Optimum resolutions and relevant) and
proper fonts sizes.
Situation B : A website inversely equipped with hideous graphics and pictures in
varied degrees of resolution, quality and relevancy. (Red pictures with a bright green
background for example) Fonts used were not matching, too small and too hard to
read.
Situation A : visitors that enter the website are immediately awestruck by the
incredible page design and artwork. The well placed pictures and designs will somewhat
symbolize the positive nature of the company/website. As we know, most people
DO judge by their very first impression.
As for Situation B, the shabby environment due to lazy lack of creativity and
badly taken pictures wouldn’t exactly help in attracting visitors, much less
repeat visitors. Fonts that
were hard to be read, let alone comprehend, and mismatching themes in terms of
color, isn’t exactly inviting, is it?
Analysis : Now, the main concept here is to plan your website, try to get
other individuals (friends, family etc) for feedback and perspectives. This is
called a usability study... But it's only effective if you act on their feedback
and concerns. Each tester's mindset might differ, but
at least you will get room for improvement. Don’t get me wrong, even a plain
website with proper page layout and design would generate plenty of positive implications, but
the primary idea here is to at least maintain a impressionable website to engage
the visitor.
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