In the digital age, a website is often a very important source that one’s audience comes across. Its very important to understand the principles of web designing to make a website intuitive and user-friendly. The guest lecturer Mauve discusses various aspects of web design such as: negative space, color choices, proportions, rhythm and typography. She dives into these so we can a clear idea of these principles to keep in mind.
Negative Space: This is often overlooked but crucial, it is the blank area surrounding the website’s elements. The right amount of negative space allows the content to become more readable and engaging.
Proportions Matter: Balancing the proportion between text and titles is essential for readability. Ensuring that text size is appropriate and styled in relation to theme and title means it improves the visual hierarchy of the website.
Rhythm: This relates to the visual flow of the elements on the page. Paying attention to the grid layout and stroke is important as they provide structure and order to the website content.
Color Scheme: Choosing the right color scheme for the website is crucial as it needs to be visually appealing and accessible to users.
Typography: Contrast, font choice and legibility is very important as well. Text should be be readable against the backgrounnd and choosing a typeface with a broader family helps with greater flexibility while desiging. .
Amphibiousness: The website should be adaptable to different screen sizes and devices. A responsive design is essential for a easy user experience on any device of any size
Showmanship: The website’s design should reflect the brand’s identity and what the brand is about. This should be professional and match in aesthetics and design elements as well.
After this explanation and discussion, Mauve has a group in class discussion session where we gave a brief critic on two websites cover page below.
My thoughts on this website is that the dark and moody color scheme matches really well with the horror theme that the website is about, but the readability of text needs high-contrast colors and font. Proportions should be adjusted to emphasize the content with maintaining rhythm in mind.
My thoughts on this website are that it is a platform focused on sports and lifestyle hence its simple color scheme and the use of image and typefont works well, maintaining the legibility is crucial and