Building a Website – Why Design is the Most Important Part of the Development Process?
November 27th, 2009 by admin
A program, compact Disk (CD) application, website or even a video game itself is not enough and complete without following design principles and guidelines. It is important to be aware of design guidelines and principles both aesthetic and structural in order to be able to create a good design and usability. Such principles should involve simplicity, structure, consistency and tolerance.
A user interface or a website template must be kept as simple as possible. It should be communicated clearly and simply to the viewers” own language. In order to keep the interface simple, designers should employ actions, icons, words, text sizes and user interface controls that are natural to the user. It is also important to keep our interface organizing in a meaningful and useful way. An interface should reflect the user understands of the domain and the expectations about how the interface should be structured.
Besides to keep an interface organized, they should be designed in such way that will prevent users from making errors. An interface should help users avoid mistakes by making wrong choices unavailable.
Keeping our interface/template consistent is another important principle. It aims to uniform our template/interface in appearance, placement and behavior in order to make a design rationale easy to learn and remember. From my personal experience, when a template/interface does employ complexity and confusion in terms of the content and the way it is structured, it becomes impossible and difficult to be studied and learned resulting in a failure to be memorized even when we tried continuously..
Andrew is an SEO and Web Design expert and President of iTarget Media, an Orange County based SEO and Web Design Company.
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