Websight UI Design strategies and notes

Elegant Themes article

10 Rules of Good UI Design to Follow On Every Web Design Project - the user needs to easily find and use what they need - The contact/help button should always be readily acceble - tabs and toolbars are really usfule for complex sites or software - Be consistiant, from fonts and colors to menues and layout - create simple easy to understand journeys and procceses. the costomer needs to be able to know exactly where they are - control the flow of traffcik, the consumer needs to be herded - use icons and clear messaging - Clean lines and lots of space - make things as simple as possible cutting out anything that may be a distraction - whatever action a user wants should be located next to item they want to act on - |||There’s an interesting idea called the principle of least surprise that says if you make your user surprised at how something works…rework it so it’s more intuitive.