It is often believed that zeal or passion never go along with any commandments or rules for moving ahead to make one achieve what she or he desires. However, in the professional world, this is not the case, especially in the creative field of Web designing. As a designer, one tends to focus on technical details, processes, and execution strategies by keeping in mind some fundamentals, principles, or commandments. This approach is essential for making the team of designers work in coordination with the same information regarding the processes and implementation. Ordinances or guiding principles remind one of the basics that can be even shared with the colleagues so that there is consistency in the final output. Further, they also help you sharpen your design process to face challenges that you may face in future. So, here are the primary ordinances for every Web designer to follow in this evolving tech world of diverse devices and incredible possibilities.
Mobile Support is Essential.
With
the increasing use of iPads, tablets, laptops, and smartphones for
accessing the World Wide Web; there is no doubt that your Web designing
projects must be mobile-friendly. As per the latest statistics, 700k
Android, 143k Blackberry, and 200k Nokia smartphones were already in use
by early 2012. Further, even Facebook has reported that more people are
using their most famous social network through mobile Web. This
indicates that for any business to succeed, it is vital that it makes
its site available even on the mobile Web. Therefore, one of the modern
commandments for the Web designers is to ensure mobile support for the
sites they design.
Customize Only after Optimization.
If
something new is released after which real time monitoring indicate the
need of second round of innovation, it becomes essential to prioritize
that round. There may be a need of optimization as well as customization
in this round. Optimization includes technical solutions for ensuring
compact file sizes and greater site visibility; customization entails
the ideas of improvements in terms of navigation, features, or content.
Of the two, optimization must given more priority over customizations.
When you speed up the access rate, you are allowing users to access and
interact with your site, which is the sole goal of online business. This
comes only from optimization. Therefore, optimization comes first!
Ensure Reusability.
This
means that the designers must craft an element in such a way that it
can be published almost on any platform. This is actually the sign of an
efficient workflow. Here, the need is to create a sole, simple workflow
that generates Web elements only once but distributes them effectively
to all gadgets. Focus should not be only on looks and placements of
these elements but also on quality, especially in case of content
publishing. So, it is vital to model content types by keeping in mind
the core needs coupled with the vision of multi-channel reuse. Such
an approach with consistency and simplicity in terms of design and data
feeds can be used by online apps and widgets as well for swift
experimentation and innovation without making any initial infrastructure
changes.
Develop a Flexible Visual Style Guide
Instead
of maintaining a variety of unique designs, it is more efficient to
have a flexible visual style guide that can offer aesthetic guidance for
several screen sizes. The underlying ideal is to allow rapid design
decisions for publishing on any target device. Having a collection of
specific designs for specific scenarios or devices actually limit your
ability to innovate and react quickly. There are a few tools and
processes, which can help you to achieve this, so that the new
experimental designs do not start with their own new route.
