The first impression is the last impression.
As web developers, we consider designing UI a secondary part of developing an application. This sometimes leads to an uninteresting application even though the functionalities are fine. Today we will be discussing some tips for improving your UI designs.
1. Colors
Choosing the right color is one of the important steps in UI designs. Colors can be your most powerful tool to gain a reaction from your targeted audience. You can use colors to express your visitor's emotions or respond to a call-to-action on your website. Color helps us to process and store images more efficiently than colorless.
For example,
Here the user of the application will be alerted seeing the red button does something terrible even before reading text inside the button.
Colors can also help to express your brand's intention. Blue seems to be the winning color, as it shows up in 33% of the top 100 brands. Red comes second by showing up in 29% of the brands, and black or greyscale makes the third most popular choice with 28%. Finally, 13% use yellow or gold.
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Apart from these, color contrast between background and foreground is very important.
2. White Space
White space is often a forgotten part of UI designs. The proper use of white space can improve the UI of the application. For example, consider the two pens.
The first pen looks kind of like things are just cluttered. But the second one makes the sections feel apart from each other.
For extra white spaces in the section, you can always apply margin or padding depending upon the UI. Also always apply a line height> 1.5 for better readability. Consistency in white space is also very crucial.
3. Choose the right font
Choosing the right font is an essential part of describing your website. An italic font can represent a beauty product where hardcore fonts describes gaming.
4. Put everything inside a container
Always put everything inside a container and give it a max-width so that after this specific width, the content will stretch no more. Dont forget to give auto margins in order to make it horizontally centered.
.container{
width: 90%;
max-width: 1080px;
margin: 0 auto;
}