How We Make a Good Design?
February 24th, 2010
by Amina
Have you any interest in blog design? Yes or No?
So whatever your decisions about the blog design I must imagine that after reading this you must desgin a good blog.
We invest huge amounts of time into modification of our blogs, or huge amounts of money into paying others to do so but how do we know our design is actually worth all that effort?
What aspects help to make a good blog design?
There are many factors available on the internet that helps us to make a good blog design but we can wrap the main factors under the umbrella of the below mentioned factors. These are those which I would consider the important elements of good blog design to be.
1.Achieve Site Goals:
Every site has a reason to being alive which is called a purpose. Good Design takes into account that purpose, and then works towards it.
What you want from your visitors to do on your website?
It is important to make clear distinction between what you want, and what visitors want.The first stage in creating a great design is to lay out your blog’s goals. Readers will not read everything on your page they mostly get bored of having to read a text. The path to achieving your goals rests on choosing what you really want visitors to see, and knowing what you won’t mind them not seeing. In short it is about giving prominence to the important elements.
The tricky thing about prominence knows not to overdo it. There are many ways of giving an element prominence, and they are inconsistency, size, color, positioning, Active Whitespace, but it is crucial to realize that in order for one thing to stand out, another has to face in.
In short, for every element you give prominence to, you lessen the overall effect of those elements. This is the main cause of disorder. When a person attempts to highlight too many sections of the page, the effect is ruined, and instead of one or two things drawing a reader’s attention, everything tries to draw that attention, causing confusion and loss. Minimalism is about drawing attention to just on or two, crucial elements.
2.Memorable Design:
What impression does your website leave? Does you site design makes your blog remembered at all? Keep in mind one thing which is that design is important no doubt but it is not important solely when the visitor is on the site, but also when they have left it.We have already covered site goals and user goals, but those only take effect when the use is actually on your site.What about when they are offline or even they are elsewhere?
If visitors read your iPod article today, what is it that will make them think of you the next time they’re looking for iPod information? So be different, be unique, and be memorable purpose-built and usable blog is great.
White background? Arial Font? Photoshop-ed text as header? We’ve seen these traits a million times before. They aren’t going to set you apart. You need something more like:
- Logos and Header images
- Interactivity
- Image in post
- Color
- Personal photograph
Of course, if they remember you for your rubbish content, then all the design in the world won’t help! Assuming otherwise though,distinct design will brand your blog onto their memories, earning you many more return visitors.
3.Distinction and First Impression:
You don’t design a blog to print it out and hang it on your wall to be admired and you don’t design it to keep with yourself. eye-catching designs are good simply because they get you more readers. As you can see, there is quite a bit to be gleaned from a first impression. A good design will say the right things, and is the most effective way of slashing your bounce rate. One of your most valuable tools is to make good use of the fold. at the same time as many users will indeed scroll down the page, it doesn’t change the fact that the first thing they see is still the top of the page. From that one glimpse, they need to discover the name and purpose of your site, but they also need to decide if it is worth their while viewing it. That is what makes attractive design useful.
Beyond that, it’s up to you to create the best design you can, whilst still succeeding in your own goals, user goals and being distinctive. A good design can be made up from any combination of colors, shapes, designs and fonts. I’ll end the series with a final question. Are usable designs attractive?The most usable web sites are often the most forgettable, and not by mistake. They were built with the user experience in mind. But is that on its own enough?
