Focusing on Good Design, Not (Just) Good Decoration

Time and time again, we mistake good decoration for good design

Designers must keep in mind that true graphic design is less of an art and more of a theory. Graphic design is simply a means to solve problems, but once you have solved your problem, you are free to dress it any way you like. The best way to design your web sites (as well as any other thing), is to first figure out what the goal of your site is to be.

In this tutorial you can see a list of websites as an examples for a decent balance of design and decoration. The authors are discussing how easy and intuitive the navigation is and the way in which everything interacts with the decoration.

Daniela Vaseva

Daniela VasevaDaniela is writing tutorials, news, newsletters, and update emails for the DMXzone specialising in the sphere of electronic processing, analysis and publication of texts, and interested in the development of new Internet technologies and problems related to the cyberculture and net literature. She has a bachelor's degree in Bulgarian philology, and a master's degree in computational linguistics.

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