By Cari Jansen
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Minimalism is achieved by reducing a design to only the most essential elements. Expressions of minimalism span multiple disciplines, as well as other art forms such as music and literature. For website designers, though, minimalism can be intimidating and difficult to master.
But anyone can master minimalism. Essentially, minimalism is about breaking things down to the barest elements necessary for a design to function. It’s about taking things away until nothing else can be removed without interfering with the purpose of the design. Below are a number of principles of minimalist design, as well as an exploration of current trends and additional examples.
You might also enjoy our previous article “Showcase of Clean and Minimalist Designs.”
Less Is More
“Less is more” is probably the most well-known catch phrase of the minimalist movement. It was popularized by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in describing the minimalist aesthetic.
In Web design, less is more is achieved by using only elements that are necessary to a given design. Using less to achieve an effect that’s more than the sum of the design’s parts is the goal.
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Simple, straightforward typography and a bare use of color make for a design that’s aesthetically pleasing but minimal.
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Exhibition Concept and Creative Direction – Nike Brand Design
‘Fit’ Installation Concept and Creative Direction – Matt Pyke
Art Direction – Dylan Griffith
3D Animation – Chris Perry
Developers – Mike Tucker, Andreas Müller
Sound Design – Simon Pyke
Executive Producer – Keri Elmsly
Producer – Captain Blyth
Film and Photography – James Medcraft
Commissioned by Nike
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If you have a website or app you need to design, throwing your ideas on paper and putting together wireframes is a great way to begin the process. To show you how important wireframes can be, in the past we’ve shown you 10 Free UI Wireframe Kits, 13 Super Useful UI Wireframe Tools and some wireframe sketches. And today we gathered a new round of sketches for you. Remember that this list is only to show you how other designers approach their projects with sketches, and of course, to inspire you. Click on the images to learn more about each designer and their work.
App design | Phase 1: Sketching by Alex Deruette
Make simple scene linking navigation using AS 3.0
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Create Website on Google – HTML Introduction
What is HTML?
HTML is a language for describing web pages.
- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
- HTML is a markup language
- A markup language is a set of markup tags
- The tags describe document content
- HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
- HTML documents are also called web pages
There’s a certain sophistication to designs that only use the bare minimum elements — nothing less, nothing more. In this showcase, you’ll get to see some great website designs that beautifully demonstrate the concept of minimalism.
Flat design is trending these days in web design industry. In case you are not familiar with the concept, I am here to discuss – Flat design is the website design which do not includes drop shadows, textures, gradients, bevels and other patterns that are common in web designing. It is a straightforward design with no extra effects used to create depth and dimension. This design focuses on solid colors, typography and simple UI elements. Many designers have inspired from metro style interface, but we call it to the extreme of flat design. It is simple, designed with high contrast colors, square corners and straight lines giving a metro-like look and feel.
To help you get an idea about how flat design looks like, I have collected a few examples of flat website design to inspire you get it done for your website as well. Hope you like them and share the same with your friends and people you work with.
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Article by Jake Rocheleau
The mobile responsive website layout has become a very common apparatus for designers. Building a layout is never easy and each website generally requires a unique solution. Responsive design incorporates both desktop and mobile devices to provide a uniform browsing experience. I have seen a lot of fantastic examples showcasing responsive web design trends.
In this article I want to focus particularly on navigation menus. To build a responsive navigation you need a technique for handling the resize down to lower resolutions, or consequentially handling the expansion for wider desktop monitors. Check out these various techniques which are my choices following the most popular ideas for responsive navigation. There are obviously some other solutions out there, but this collection should give you ideas for getting started with your own responsive designs.
HTML5 Up! is a small showcase of the free responsive HTML5 + CSS3 site templates that AJ put together while developing 5grid. All of them are clean, minimal, fully responsive site templates built on HTML5 and CSS3. They are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
Read more at http://www.webappers.com/2013/05/22/free-responsive-html5-css3-site-templates/#ukrZ3eiEO5lmTUTG.99
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In order to be a great designer, you need to be on top of the trend before it becomes a trend. Being able to have this sense of what’s going to take off is key in creating a wonderful product. You’re recognized for being one of the ‘firsts’ and you’re also given props for your innovation and new approach to common problems.
All this is great and desired. It can, however, be tough to keep up with trends because they come so frequently and you never know what’s going to stick. What seems to be hot today can end up cooling off dramatically by the end of the week. Whether it’s a design style or a development technique, you’ve got to be ahead of the curve.
With advances in technology, I think it’s safe to say one of the trends to look forward to are animated web designs. Now, no this isn’t really news, as that’s essentially the idea behind Flash websites, but now we have to do it without (or minimal) Flash. We also have to do in a way that interests viewers and doesn’t push them away. Today, I’ve found 20 web designs that use minimal to dramatic amounts of animation in their design. Let’s jump right in.
Le Singe Fume Sa Cigarette
This website is odd and creative. Also, for me, it has a mysterious quality because I don’t speak French! This extremely minimal movement and animation on this site is especially intriguing from an artist perspective.
One of the most variable aspects of web design is the way in which we approach width and height in terms of measurements and flexibility.
For many years, we have rotated between the benefits and pitfalls of using fixed, elastic, and liquid measurements in a quest to give optimal viewing experiences in highly varied situations, while balancing our need to control things in our web pages.
But, as Bob Dylan proclaimed a long time ago, “The times, they are a-changin’,” and with these changes come a variety of new ways for laying out your website’s pages and an even more variable landscape of methods for viewing websites.
In this article, we will examine web layout types — old, new, and the future. We will explore the subject in the context that websites are being viewed in a diverse amount of ways, such as through mobile phones, netbooks, and touchscreen personal devices like the iPad.
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Let’s set our objectives for this exploration of layout types:
- We shall examine the variety of options that exist
- For each layout type, I’ll try to suggest some situations they are best used in
- The pros and cons of a layout type compared to others
We will discuss 10 types of web layouts.
Types of Layout Methods
While pixel perfection is a pipe dream, there’s more to layouts than fixed, liquid or elastic!
The main lesson to take away from these choices is to think carefully about why an option is suitable for a particular situation and how your choice will affect your audience.
Let’s dig in, starting with absolute layouts.
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Here are our editor’s picks for the Top 10 Best Flash Websites of 2012 based on visual artistry, integrated sound, ease of use, and uniqueness. Last Updated: October 5, 2012
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