All Hail the King He stands in His honour And speaks what is true He is the King of Context We’re all aware of the adage “Content is King”, but just because we’ve always been taught this, is it necessarily the case? As designers we are beginning to take a more holistic approach to web [...]
A lot of my recent articles have talked about simplifying your website and reducing unessarry elements in order to deliver a clearer message. Well this post talks about the key to this issue: minimalism. In an age where the client often pushes more and more content upon you, it can often seem a herculean task [...]
The case against I-stock imagery is growing by the website and we are in now in real danger of producing faceless websites which reek of staleness, mediocrity and laziness. You now the theme; ethnically diverse suits shaking hands with ridiculous Colgate smiles… (Does this even happen?). I don’t even think the majority of these people [...]
Continued from Part 1….. Similarity breeds good design: “Things that are similar are perceived to be more related than those that are dissimilar” #5 Colour The most obvious technique in design to create attention is to use colour contrast. To create contrast you obviously need to choose dissimilar colours. Contrast is a fundamental technique in [...]
**Announcement**: Okay I don’t want to scare too many of you away with another design psychology based article but as I’ve said before I think it’s imperative that we should use psychological techniques more in our designs. I’m not saying design is completely scientific or mathematical, but I do believe the best design comes when [...]
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