7 Mistakes Every Designer Make
When we start making our way for web designers, we make a lot of mistakes. Once you have started working in a creative agency you should quickly realize that there are a lot of things you should not do while designing a website. In a website, good graphic design will inspire better responses and clearly communicate the visual information while bad design, on the other hand will delay and destroy that communication. Here are lists of common design mistakes to be aware of. Although we have also committed most of these mistakes and we have learned from them and hopefully they can help you too: Not understanding the brief: You need to read and understand the brief carefully from the start as without clear idea of what the client wants you can end up making matters more complicated for yourself. A lot of time can be wasted on working up on the design ideas that may not be relevant and according to the client's needs.
Poor Typography Choices: Choosing a poor typography will ruin a design and change the message you are trying to send to your visitors. Whatever you choose, please specially do not use Curlz, Papyrus or Comic Sans; these are just a few examples of poor typography.
Font overload: Having a clear, formatted design is crucial for a good website and so it is also important that don’t use too many different fonts within website content. If you want your type to look consistent and different so don't use lots of varied typefaces. Not Proofreading: Using the spellchecker is a great tool for finding misspelled words present within your web design but it won't catch correctly spelt words in the wrong context so finish your project and walk away and then come back and read it again. Repeat the process if necessary.
Using too many images: Images are considered very helpful for a web design as it will attract more visitors easily. When you can't afford to hire a professional photographer you may use certain images that seem to do the design circuit. Building Graphics and Logos in Raster Format: Please avoid using the raster logos and graphics at all costs as raster images are worst if they are of low resolution. Raster images are made up of pixels and are set to fix for a certain resolution. However, most of the times you will get images that are of low resolution.
Copying other people's designs: Originality is the key to become a genuine designer and copy content will not go unnoticed. So gathering some influences and inspiration is fine but directly copying other people’s work is not tolerated. iMedia Designs | Toronto web design company which is an IT consulting firm offering web development and ecommerce web design services.