Design is in the Details
May 2, 2008
Best Practices · Design (Web) · Tutorial / How-tos
Here are some memorable points from Dan Rubin and Bryan Veloso’s talk, Design is in the Details from Webmaster Jam 2007, get MP3 of talk from RSS feed. I listened to this talk over my Christmas vacation. I listened to it again this morning. I had immediately applied several of the things they talked about to my personal site and have integrated into my design process.
- Let your layout breathe — CNN.com is a great example
- Consistency of spacing or use multiple scale
- Use range kerning in headlines (with larger font size)
- No hanging widows — Shaun Inman’s Widot plugin
- Alignment — aligning elements can make a huge difference
- Black is not black and white is not white — consider using #333 or #CCC instead of default black and white
- Flat is boring — create some depth
- Adding a pixel to add interest — as one border (they used example of Mint’s dashboard)
- Know when to quit