Designing is a creative process that combines technical skills and artistic ability.
Whether you are designing a website, a logo, or an entire brand identity, it is essential to follow some best practices to ensure that your designs are practical, functional, and aesthetically pleasing.
Here are the top 5 design best practices that you should follow when creating your initial designs:
1. Understand the Audience: Before starting any design project, it is essential to understand the design’s purpose and the intended audience. It should not be underestimated or rushed. Time and budget are always essential considerations in product design. With these, the product will be shipped. While that’s important to the process, keeping sight of who uses the product, their customer journey, and whether they’re desktop or mobile users is essential.
2. Define user objectives: Get into the mindset of a new end user. What do they want to achieve? How will the application help them? List and refer to our goals throughout the UI or UX design process. Conduct in-depth research to gain insight into your target audience’s demographics, interests, and preferences. This information will help you create a design that will reverberate with your audience and achieve the desired results.
3. Consistent action in the application: Everyone loves when an application is user-friendly. It avoids headaches, saves time, and helps users achieve their goals by eliminating confusion — all requirements for creating satisfied customers. Consistent actions eliminate the need for user search and thus make their workflow run more smoothly. If an Audience knows how to use functionality in one section, they know how to use it in all areas.
4. Design patterns for product UI/UX design consistency: A successful and consistent UI means a user can perform tasks with a minimal number of actions. If a four-step job can quickly be completed in two, the UI should constantly be optimized for shorter workflows. UI patterns can benefit from this… after all, this functionality is why they became patterns in the first place.
5. Consistent Communication:
Search results, form submission messages, error windows — every interaction with your user is a conversation. For an app/website to be successful, it must talk to the user and inform them of what is happening.
Resource:
https://www.uxpin.com/studio/blog/guide-design-consistency-best-practices-ui-ux-designers/
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