Have you been following all the talk about the lack of creativity and the lack interesting aesthetics that the web design and development industry has producing the last few years?
Tag: aesthetics
How Important Is Art Direction To The Success Of A Website?
Is art direction necessary on the web? How important is it to the success of a website? Most sites don’t give consideration to art direction. Should they?
Art Direction And Design
What is art direction? Is it the trend from a few years back to give every blog post a different look? Not really. That was called art direction, but the trend wasn’t quite art direction, even if it did present different aesthetics to different sets of content.
Personal Taste And Why Appreciating Different Perspectives Is Important
How much time do you put in to understanding the perspective of others? Do you judge anything that differs from your own personal taste as poor quality?
The Perception That Design Is How Something Looks
Ask any designer and they’ll tell you design is more than how something looks. For many non-designers though, how a thing looks is design. Nothing else, just the look. It’s a common perception designers have tried to change for years and it often feels like a losing battle.