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Typography is an essential part of any website. There is no doubt about it. Websites usually offer information and the easiest way to present this information is through text. Besides, “people who are reading a well typeset page are more engaged in the experience and find that time flies by faster.” Good typography is not only a convenient carrier for information, it can also help to engage our website visitors.
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For those of you who haven’t snuck off during work to browse Buzzfeed, an introduction is in order. Buzzfeed is a news aggregation site that collects content from around the web. Some of the news is provided by resident contributors or partner websites, but all of it is filtered by a community ranking system.
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When you’re designing an application – whether it’s for the web or for a mobile device – the user interface is enormously important. If the UI is clunky, awkward or confusing, users are likely to abandon the app. However, interfaces that are simple to use because they’ve been carefully crafted, will be liked. Thoughtfully designed UIs are often more likely to be highly recommended – even if they solve the same problem as their competitors.
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Parallax scrolling. A design technique that has become increasingly popular lately — and not without reason. We’ve been talking a lot about how the web has changed and how our expectations towards a website have risen. The web user of today wants to get entertained and involved. We are more than willing to engage with a website, if we are invited to do so anyway. With parallax scrolling you can do a bunch of great things to invite your visitors to engage with your site.
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Stories play a central role in any culture. Their original purpose is to entertain, educate, and to teach us moral values. Back in the days when there was no mass media, stories were passed on from person to person, from generation to generation. Later, they were written down, duplicated, and easily accessible to the masses. With every new medium people kept finding new and more advanced ways to preserve and share their stories.
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A landing page is a vital tool for your online marketing. Also referred to as a lead capture page or lander, this single webpage appears in response to clicking on an ad, following an email link, or scanning a QR Code.
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Most websites out there were designed with three central goals in mind: (1) to attract a certain group of people, (2) to inform them about a certain product or service, and (3) to convince them to take a certain action. The way you present your business idea on your website is essential for the success of all of these three goals.
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The user experience of a website has gained quite some importance in the last couple of years. A website is expected to be functional, reliable, and efficient nowadays. Besides these basics, it also needs to be engaging and fun. In order to stand out from your competitors and to make a lasting impression, you need to offer your visitors an experience worth remembering. You need to make sure they actually enjoy your website.
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Responsive web design is quite a new approach to handling your website on different devices. While your content stays the same, the layout changes according to the screen resolution. Responsive design allows you to create a unique user experience on different platforms and at the same time keep maintenance efforts at a minimum.
There have been numerous articles lately that cover this topic. Some help us understand the anatomy of responsive websites with guidelines and tutorials, others shed light on the role of media queries, and yet others offer inspiring collections of responsive designs.
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This is a guest post by Jessica Velasco.
If you are new to the design field, creating a website may seem a daunting task. There are so many things to consider; you’re probably worrying about your clients’ requests, the aesthetic feeling you hope to induce, and tons of other creative nuances. However, the real challenge is combining all these requirements in a website that is usable.
If you are a veteran designer, you already know how important the usability of a website is. Yet, for both rookies and veterans, it can be easy to slip into the creative mode and disregard the true purpose of web design – to meet the needs of the users.
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