Tuesday 11 August 2015

The Elements of a Web Design

Designing of website is related to how your website looks like rather than how it works.  A designer has the following Responsibilities.
User Interface Design
It is important to identify the goals of a website.  The responsibilities of a web designer includes
Interaction Designer: Makes site available, easy to use, Interactive and Delightful to the user.
User Interface Designer: Makes user friendly navigation, buttons and other contents on the page. Focus more on the interoperability of website.
User Experience Designer: User experience designer focuses on the website development needs and requirements of the users based on interviews and statistics.

User Research
User experience is the first thing that can make your website successful. For your website to be successful, you must conduct research on user’s requirements and their tastes. After this you must conduct some user testing to check the performance of your website. You must create research and test reports after every test.
Diagrams
Mostly wireframe diagrams are used to describe the structure of your website. It defines the division and partition of the screen.
Site Diagram
Usually described by sitemaps, a site diagram, that is used to describe the structure a site along with the location and relation of the different pages.
Storyboards and User Flow Charts
Storyboards are used to describe the paths and tasks on the website. It describes how the tasks are done and how different applications are linked to each other. Flow charts are another way to represent storyboards.

Visual Design
Visual design describes the colour, theme, layout and structure of a website. Visual designer usually uses sketches to describe the design of a website. Visual designing is another part of graphic designing. You must have strong knowledge of CSS and HTML to become a visual designer.

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