Designing for the mobile web is supposedly not a difficult transition to make for a web designer. Smartphones are already the norm and are beginning to overtake desktop browsing of the web.

Look at slow design like a fine wine, which matures and tastes so much more refined as a result of time and patience.

I recently stumbled upon an absolute diamond in the dirt when I was collecting some books from my old pad. The gem in question was a book called Creative Advertising which became my creative bible during my student days.

In the beginning there was art and more specifically drawing by hand. Hand drawing was my way into the world of web design yet is a principle now which often gets neglected due to a multitude of reasons.

I still feel there is too much emphasis placed on getting lots of information on the homepage of your website.

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 [...]

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 [...]