Navneet Panchariya - Web Designer | UI Designer | Front End Developer

While there are no rigid rules when it comes to web design, there do exist certain metrics that can distinguish a bad design from a good one, and even more so, a good design from a great one. Yet, there indeed are many practices that you can implement in order to ensure that your web design endeavors rank among the good ones - clean typography, proper usage of colors, responsive and minimal design, and so on. The question is: how do you take your good design to the next level? How does a good web design become a great web design? As a designer, you are not just competing against the others in the industry - instead, you are also attempting to outdo your own past works. Naturally, now that you are already knowledgeable about typography and colors and other design aspects, it is time you moved on to ideas that can transform your good design into a great one. And in this article, I shall be discussing those very ideas! Overview: Your Side of the Story As a designer, yo...

Web design trends come and go every year, and it's important for designers and business owners to keep up with them in order to stay up-to-date and avoid having an outdated website. Although minor trends pop up all the time, we'll only talk about major trends in this article: simplicity, storytelling, and responsive design. When reading about the following Web design trends, think about it in terms of user experience rather than the actual style of design. Style of design is fairly irrelevant because it is quite subjective and there's no right or wrong answer there. Simplicity You would think the meaning of simplicity is pretty obvious, but many people are probably thinking of the wrong idea. I'm not saying that websites need to be simple or plain, but they need to follow best usability practices in order to make the user experience as seamless as possible. Simplicity means to avoid cluttering your website or adding useless information that your user...

Web design projects are becoming more varied and complex with each year that passes. And one trend which looks set to explode in the next 18 months is global brands rolling out their existing corporate websites to new markets across the World. This globalization mindset is here to stay and as a result web design agencies can expect more website localisation projects and will have to ensure design is catered for an international audience. The demand for localized content has grown exponentially over the last 5 years as internet users surfing habits continue to evolve and become more sophisticated. Rewind the clock back a few years and the majority of corporate pages on the web were written in English however as we head into 2014 consumers want to be served compelling content, written in their own native language. With 2.3 billion web users Worldwide, recent stats show you can reach 90% of those users with just 13 languages. These changing conditions are prompting brands to e...