Being pretty self-taught as far as UI design goes, I’ve always wondered why so many articles and books talk about color theory and palettes. In my experience, using a “split complementary palette” is about 0% predictive of me making nice-looking designs.
I have another word for that sort of thing: useless.
Source: Color in UI Design: A (Practical) Framework – Medium
This is excellent and something that’s hard to think about in yourself. If you’re over say… 37 years old and have been doing this over 11 years, it’s pretty much spot on and we all need to think about these points when speaking to the digital world now days
We may call ourselves user experience designers, but we are web designers at heart. It is time to take off our website blinkers.
70 Best Web Design Tutorials of 2013 • 1stwebdesigner.
There are some good tuts in here. I would suggest everyone use a New Years Resolution and take some of these. Me, I plan on taking Flat UI Pro Tutorial: How To Use LESS to Create a Sign-In Form
and
Working with Types: Typography Design Tutorial for Beginners
as a refresher.
30 Excellent Textured Website Designs for Inspiration | CollegeGFX.
Go big or go home. That’s my new motto … at least this week.
This collection of sites is a great starting point for going big.
Information Architecture 101: Techniques and Best Practices.
Information architecture (IA) is an often-overlooked area of website design. Too often, as designers, we just let the CMS we’re using dictate how content for a site is organized. And that works fine as long as the site fits perfectly into the narrow content formats most CMSs are designed around.
But too often, a website’s content breaks the boundaries of most CMSs. Without a clear understanding of how information architecture works, we can end up creating sites that are more confusing than they need to be or, at worst, make our content virtually inaccessible. It’s a shame, considering that the basics of good information architecture are no more difficult to learn than the basics of good web design.
This guide covers the fundamentals of information architecture for organizing website content. We will look into popular IA design patterns, best practices, design techniques, and case examples.
130+ Latest Website Designs For Inspiration | Inspiration | Graphic Design Junction.
There are some great examples in here…
The Difference Between Design and Art.
Good read and explanation of the differences between the two.
Bobby 10:42 am on January 30, 2017 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I struggle with Color Theory too. good read. thanks.