10 Experts Show How NOT to Kill Your Website With Design

1. 10 Experts Show How NOT to Kill Your Website With Design

2. Your product should have a user-centered design. Period. If users don’t find usability in your product design there are great chances that sooner or later they will dump your product.

3. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs

4. Prof. and Director, Design Lab, UC San Diego, Author of Design of Everyday Things Don Norman Design is NOT about using fancy design elements. Design is NOT about making something look pretty. Design is about solving the right problem, about delivering something that fulfills the requirements and needs. Should it be attractive? Sure, but not at the expense of weakening the understandability and usability. #1 Design is NOT about using fancy design elements

5. Managing Director of Techstars Connection, in partnership with AB InBev Eamonn Carey Thinking about user experience and user interface design is massively important when it comes to building tech products. People have incredibly short attention spans and there’s such a huge amount of competition for their attention online and on mobile – so it’s hugely important to grab people within the first few seconds of them engaging with your product. #2 Your design can’t get in the way of your product working

6. Head of Design, Watsi Mustafa Al-Qinnneh I would say design plays an important role in the success of a digital product. Those examples you mentioned – Reddit, Craigslist, Hacker News – just because they don’t use multi-column layouts, custom typefaces, or lots of white space doesn’t mean they aren’t designed. They’re successful because they simply work. They’re fast to load. #3 Design is about meeting the needs of the user

7. Freelance logo and graphic designer, Co-owner of Utopia Branding Agency Alex Tass I am a graphic designer, of course for me the design and design elements are important and relevant, but what made Reddit, Craiglist, Hacker News, The Drudge Report, etc. grow in the first place is the shared content and the people interest for it. Of course, the better the design, the easier you reach the desired information. #4 Welcoming and interesting design can get more attention

8. Art Director at Breiter Creative Penina S. Finger Designers are often accused of presenting work that “has no design to it” because, for example, they are type only (no illustrations) or have a high proportion of white space. Design is aesthetics with a plan and an intent. These elements are critical to the success of any project. Whether the aesthetics are lightweight and minimal or heavily styled and trend conscious. #5 Design is aesthetics with a plan and an intent

9. Director of Product Design at 23andMe Scott Andress We anchor our customers’ experiences on key design principles including clarity, context, relevance and approachability. While many of the product experiences we design are interesting and fun, like Ancestry and Traits reports, some of our experiences deal with sensitive and nuanced information. We strive to create design patterns and systems that meet the diverse requirements for our entire service experience. #6 Key design principles- clarity, context, relevance and approachability

10. UX Manager at Elementum SCM Judy Philip In my opinion getting the user and interaction flow is critical to the success of a product. If users can complete their tasks successfully then users will come back. When you have other competition in the same area you may need to bump up the additional design elements to not only allow a user to complete their tasks but also make it a delightful experience where they prefer to come back to your site. #7 Allow users to get what they need quickly

11. Freelance App & Web Designer Karol Ortyl I strongly believe in the power of design, yet I’m 100% sure it won’t make the product selling by itself. If the idea behind an app is good and the product solves a problem or offers something new, then great design may only help, but decent one will do the job, as well. When an idea is poor, even a perfect design won’t make it attractive in user’s eye. To make it at least decent, the priority is to provide high-level of usability — interface may not to be a work of art, but it always had to be comfortable. Period. #8 Design won’t make the product sell by itself

12. Web and Graphic Designer Saya Benham When a business or product is introducing a very unique and useful service and when the product is very new and pioneer in the industry, the usage and innovation of the service or product is good enough for establishing the brand. There is no competition! However, when you offer a service or product that is not new and you have already many other people in the field, design can pay a great role. #9 Design plays a great role when there is a competition

13. CEO Zedge Tom Arnoy In my opinion, the sole purpose of design is to enable the user to do what he or she wants to do. A good design by website design company triggers a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction when interacting with the service. On the other hand, designs that restrain the users to interacting properly or somehow don’t enable them to take full advantage of the service, is not very useful, regardless of aesthetics. #10 Designs that restrain users to interact properly are not useful

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