The term “experience design” means designing for the user, what they can do and how they do it. The main purpose for a website is to capture the attention of people, making them want to explore deeper into what they’re seeing. The experience of the user is what every web designer needs to keep in …
4 Trends
Trends are always changing, an idea can be big one day and forgotten about the next. Four current trends that are used as of today are the minimalistic look, mobile design, horizontal menus, and cinemagraphs. The minimalistic look is when a designer uses a less is more sort of approach . Mobile design is when …
UX Small Interactions
Small interactions also known as micro-interactions can be categorized as anything from a button changing colors when clicking on it to the computer curser chasing from an arrow to a hand while clicking on something. Micro-interactions add that extra touch to a users experience that makes it more enjoyable. One of the most known micro …
Trending: Animated Logos
Animated logos are one of the biggest current trends of web design. In the past browsers had issues of pulling up and loading animations, but in today's world they're having a much easier time doing so. One of the biggest used ways that animations can be triggered is from scrolling. Using scrolling animations the user …
My Aesthetic
When it comes to my own web design aesthetic I personally believe that less is more. I am more into the simplistic minimalistic web designs. I relate this opinion to my ADD and attention span. When I click on a website the more that is on it the more distracted I get and I lose …
Project 1: Designing A Website For An Artist
Project Specs: Mobile Website Project 1 Due: 02/25 Critiques: 02/26 Task Make a 3 versions of a Mobile Website using knowledge of viewports, screen densities, responsive grids and preliminary knowledge of media queries as well as basic css animation and some bootstrap. Our mission here is stick to simple design, elegant code, and basic responsive …
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Devices and Screen Size
iPhone 8 Screen Size: 4.7” Resolution: 1334-by-750-pixel resolution Pixel Density: 326 ppi iPhone 8 Plus Screen Size: 5.5" Resolution: 1920-by-1080-pixel resolution Pixel Density: 401 ppi iPhone X Screen Size: 5.8” Resolution: 2436-by-1125-pixel resolution Pixel Density: 458 ppi MacBook Air 13" Screen Size: 13.3” (diagonal) Resolution: 1440 by 900 pixels Apple Watch 38mm Screen Size: 38” Resolution: 272 by 340 …
My Favorite Web Site Inspirations
My favorite web site to look at is Melanie Daveid. This is one of those websites that I go back to look at very often. I enjoy the color scheme and how it is a single page site. I also enjoy the different animations. I am attempting to remake my portfolio website and make it look …
Why I Want To Be A Web Designer
When I first started my web design classes spring of sophomore year I was honestly pretty scared. Like I previously mentioned I was always told that you need to be really good at math to understand coding. I knew for a fact I suck at math and would never be good at it. I am …
My Previous Projects
For starters I didn't 100% sure I was going to like web design, as I have previously been told that coding is very hard and not that easy to catch onto. I was told you need to be good at math and have really good attention to detail or else you won't be able to …