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

We're not all designing our content right. There. I said it. Maybe you, personally, are doing a great job, but most of us aren't. We can, and should do better. We owe it to ourselves, our clients, and most importantly, to our users. "Content is King." That's been a mantra for so long that it's almost become a cliche. We know content matters. We know why it matters. Why then, do so many of us treat it as, if not an afterthought, a matter of lower priority? Why aren't we designing our content first, before we touch any other aspect of our content-driven sites? We should be. Before we touch any other part of the design, we should be thinking about out how our users will be interacting with the content. We should figure out how that might benefit them, and the website's owners. Users don't want to spend their time admiring your website. It's not what they're there for. They're there to find what they're looking for, and ...

Material Design is Google's new visual design language. It was introduced at the 2014 I/O Conference in June, and it's beginning to find real traction in all areas of the design community. This new visual language is fascinating because it systematically addresses a lot of issues we, as designers, face on a daily basis. At the same time, it's both surprising and refreshing to see a giant such as Google publicly announce its new design direction. The free online documentation is available for everyone and it offers so much insight into what Material Design is and how it works. More importantly, it offers plenty of design lessons for us all; it's interesting, informative and innovative. There are guidelines on what to do, and what not to do, for just about anything you can think of, from button size and placement, to animations. The 3 principles of Material Design Material Design's core values are more than just a progression of the current design ...