Web Design Principles
January 16, 2008
Web Design is a complex form of design, but still draws key principles from design as a discipline. In summary, these might be:
- Contrast
Web design depends on contrast in colour, size, shape, space, position, and more. - Precedence
You can guide a use’s eye through a web design by use of contrast. - Alignment
Website’s are commonly designed using an underlying grid system to ensuring elements line up, making you design more aesthetically pleasing and your content more digestible. - Convention
It’s important to consider what standards are commonly known across web designs, and to adhere to these, except when specifically breaking convention to achieve a given aim. - Consistency
Any interactive interface should be consistent in how it plays with it’s users – web design is no different.
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