{"id":8293,"date":"2022-08-05T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alaafiaafrc.org\/adtc\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2023-04-04T11:43:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T16:43:52","slug":"10-principles-of-good-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alaafiaafrc.org\/adtc\/10-principles-of-good-web-design\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Principles Of Good Web Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-garfield-summary\">\n<section class=\"article__summary\" aria-label=\"Quick summary\">Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a website. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can\u2019t use a feature, it might as well not exist.<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sponsor-panel c-felix-the-cat\">\n<p class=\"sponsor-panel-content\">This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbwebsitedesign.co.uk\/?utm_source=smashingmagazine&amp;utm_medium=10-principles-of-effective-web-design\">Creative Brand Design<\/a> who focus on creating <strong>bespoke and interactive web experiences<\/strong> for aspiring and established businesses and enterprises. <em>Thank you!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sponsor-panel-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbwebsitedesign.co.uk\/?utm_source=smashingmagazine&amp;utm_medium=10-principles-of-effective-web-design\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.smashing.media\/assets\/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629\/cb5f0009-b0d4-4764-a7ba-1314e70987e8\/creative-brand-design.svg\" alt=\"Creative Brand Design\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Usability<\/strong> and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a website. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can\u2019t use a feature, it might as well not exist.<\/p>\n<p>We aren\u2019t going to discuss the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2017\/08\/nine-principles-design-implementation\/\">design implementation<\/a> details (e.g. where the search box should be placed) as it has already been done in a number of articles; instead we focus on the <strong>main principles, heuristics and approaches for effective web design<\/strong> \u2014 approaches which, used properly, can lead to more sophisticated design decisions and simplify the process of perceiving presented information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a website. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaafiaafrc.org\/adtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaafiaafrc.org\/adtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaafiaafrc.org\/adtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaafiaafrc.org\/adtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaafiaafrc.org\/adtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alaafiaafrc.org\/adtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8295,"href":"https:\/\/alaafiaafrc.org\/adtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions\/8295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaafiaafrc.org\/adtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alaafiaafrc.org\/adtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaafiaafrc.org\/adtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alaafiaafrc.org\/adtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}