Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web
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Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web
People with positive taste, on the other hand, can make things that genuinely look good. This gives them a lot more freedom in their designs (they can use colors other than white!). Truly good designers have positive taste. Unfortunately for people like us, Apple seems to have hired most of them and put them to work building fairly bland web sites.
Aaron Swartz • Two Conceptions of Taste (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
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But the essence of a good website transcends mere technical execution and includes a broad set of concerns, including projection of the company’s brand identity, the psychology of user interface, and consistency with other media in which the company is visible.
Michael W. Preis • 101 Things I Learned® in Business School (Second Edition)
One of the most gratifying aspects of web design and development is the lateral thinking involved. There is rarely ever an objective and singular correct way to go about achieving something. You have to consider all the different contexts a user will encounter on your site, how you want them to interact with it, what you want to elicit in t
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Many sites will share design solutions, because we’re using the same materials. The consistencies establish best practices; they are proof of design patterns that play off of the needs of a common medium, and not evidence of a visual monoculture.
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · The Web’s Grain
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The problem is there are no simple “right” answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need—carefully thought out, well executed, and tested
Steve Krug • Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
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- Design Principles – Design for scanning, not reading! Take advantage of conventions. Create effective visual hierarchies Break pages up into clearly defined areas. Make it obvious what’s clickable. Eliminate distractions. Format content to support scanning . Keep paragraphs short. Use bulleted lists. Highlight key terms.
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug – The Rabbit Hole
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for the other formulas, design and layout are supportive of the strategies I present. For a brochure site, design and layout are fundamental. The other sites may get away with a poor design, but a brochure site won’t.