Repetition graphic design principles prove vital to your website. In her book, The Non-Designer’s Design Book, Robin Williams discusses the importance of repetition in graphic design. Having consistency helps in strengthening a graphic design composition. And I believe this principle of repetition also applies to web design for the following reasons. Three Repetition Graphic Design …
In a previous post, we discussed the importance of contrast in graphic design. This post will provide some specific examples of how contrast can help improve your website. Although not exhaustive, the following suggestions will help you see the importance of leveraging contrast in your graphic design. In her book, The Non-Designer’s Design Book, Robin …
Everyone loves a great image. Pastors use them in their sermons. Commercials use them to sell products and services. And lyrics poetically illustrate them. Why is an image captivating? Why do companies spend lots of money purchasing images to communicate a message? Because images show, rather than tell. Rather than saying, images illustrate. They paint …
Colors are like ice cream flavors. Some go well together while others don’t. And for color swatches, some look great together while the wrong color combination can prove distracting on your website. Adobe has taken the guessing game out of swatch selection. They provide a free service called Kuler that offers free color swatch combinations. …
An image is worth a thousand pixels. Your website needs images. Lots of them. Communicating via professionally designed images helps separate your website from the rest. The quality of your website’s graphic designs sets a tone of professionalism. Your audience can tell the difference when you invest in high quality artwork. If you want to …
Ever eat one too many dinner rolls and feel stuffed? Or one too many breadsticks from your favorite Italian restaurant. If so, you know the feeling of overdoing it. Some people overdo it in other areas of life. Like saving files for the web. We overdo it and try to upload an image that is …
I love to be near my son. And he loves to have me close to him. When I walk away from him, he cries. My proximity to him provides comfort. Proximity between people matters. We feel closer to those we spend time with. Although in-person meetings are better, technologies such as the phone and Google …
Many people align their lives around objects. Some around jobs. Some money. Or God. Whatever proves important to us becomes the focus of our attention. We align our schedules around what we value most. Everything we do pushes us closer to whatever we most love. Alignment proves important to our lives. But it also proves …
I repeat words for my four-month-old son. Repetition helps him identify sounds. It teaches him the different words I want him to learn such as dada and mama. Like babies, adults learn by repetition. We practice over and over to hone our skills. We use repetition to become better. So it goes with repetition in …
Contrasting ideas help us see the benefits and weaknesses of both sides. Put next to each other, these contrasts often prove helpful in understanding the important points of an argument. Contrast helps sharpen our perspectives. Contrast is also important in graphic design. In her book, The Non-Designers Design Book, Robin Williams explains how to use …
