A “Good Design,” What is it?

• June 16, 2011
Steph

Where do you even start? What colors apply to you? What’s CSS3? And what about PHP? It may all be extremely confusing in the beginning, not to mention overwhelming, but there is one thing you must remember. Regardless of the structure, organization, typography, drop shadows, corners, responsiveness, or usability the most important thing when it comes to web design is whether or not the website performs its job. In other words, does the design achieve the end result you desired?

If you don’t exactly know what we’re talking about, and if you think we sound like complete lunatics, let Miami Web Design Pro explain it using some examples. When you begin a project you always have one goal in mind, something that will make your achievements concrete, like reaching 1000 followers by the end of the year, or 20,000 hits on your webpage. Whatever the case may be, when you finally reach that goal, that is how you know your website has reached the levels of “good design.”

For example if you designed a web app with one goal in mind – to have 100,000 users download it in its first year. Now if it did this, regardless of how it looks or functions, you have a good design. I mean you don’t reach 100,00 downloads just because.

Another, more web-related example, would be if you design a website for your store that was just meant to inform consumers about your locations and give them the option of shopping online. You set yourself with one concrete check mark – sell 10,000 units of your products within the first year of your website. If within a year you have sold 10,000 or more units, then your website had a “good design.”

Although it may appear simple, and obvious, most people get caught up with the frills of web design and forget about the most important part, you wanted a website to reach a certain goal. Now reach it.

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