Advertisement At the heart of online design sits information architecture. In fact, a large proportion of our function as online designers is devoted to supporting users when it comes to locating the content that they need, and driving them towards the content that website owners would like them to interact with. As such, we incorporate… Continue reading The Principles Of Information Architecture
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Icons In Web Design
Image source: thestorefront.com[2] Well-executed and beautiful icons look like tiny and cute images, but they are much more than that. They are extremely advantageous to every website because they attach visual cues to the essential elements of a website (headings, sections, buttons, etc) and they make the site/app look professional and sophisticated. Generally speaking, icons… Continue reading Icons In Web Design
HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know
In my previous article, we covered some of HTTP’s basics, such as the URL scheme, status codes and request/response headers. With that as our foundation, we will look at the finer aspects of HTTP, like connection handling, authentication and HTTP caching. These topics are fairly extensive, but we’ll cover the most important bits. HTTP Connections… Continue reading HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know
A Collection of Beautifully Designed Coming Soon Pages
One of the main ideas behind the lean startup principle is that you validate your idea early. If you’ve working on a startup idea, or a new product or a service or app, the idea is that you get something you can show to the world to see what people say. Coming soon pages are… Continue reading A Collection of Beautifully Designed Coming Soon Pages
How to use the Gestalt principle in your web design projects
Web designers are constantly looking for new ways of improving their projects and therefore they are introducing in their works elements from mathematics, marketing, photography, psychology, and the list may continue. As far as psychology is concerned, the Gestalt principle is widely known among web designers since it relates so good to the field of… Continue reading How to use the Gestalt principle in your web design projects