Hannah Nearpass
2 min readApr 2, 2018

Designing User Interfaces

In order to guarantee consumers of a positive experience, it is important for organizations to appear as user friendly as possible. How? The first thing to take into consideration is adapting to the universal source of information, the internet. How your website presents itself is a determining factor for users to decide whether or not it is worthy of their time to further their navigation. User interfaces determine the productivity on sites. The functionality of a website determines the traffic and interest of users. Therefore, the user interface design is not a concept to take lightly.

In consideration of website traffic, there are multiple codes designers can utilize to better generate service. For example, font size is an important tool that creates contrast. Contrast is size plus mix plus color. This being said, finding the right mix among these elements is important. Use bolder text for primary content versus smaller text for secondary content. Use three kinds of text color that vary from light to dark. Emphasizing the text of important content isn’t always enough to communicate the message. But, could you have guessed that?

Some claims are made in attempt of shifting the focus on user interfaces to meticulous measures taken to portray a functional page. It is suggested to scrutinize line length, spacing separation, color understanding, and so forth. These claims are overdone, unnecessary, and tedious.

It is said that line length that exceeds container creates an eye sore, however isn’t there a tool that allows you to zoom in and out. By utilizing this apparatus, the purpose of reducing words per line in regards to created an eye sore is merely defeated.

Spacing separation is determined by the web designer who’s sole purpose is to establish an organized, user-friendly site. That being said, advising designers to use a generous space between two groups to identify separation is trivial and potentially insulting to the integrity of well esteemed developers despite the obvious that creating a neat arrangement is of common sense.

As far as understanding colors go, the concept is absurd. The designer who is trusted with the portrayal of developing a creative, interactive site is capable of choosing an aesthetically pleasing background that doesn’t require a reason for ever single color taken from the color wheel.

The goal of any web designer is to help achieve proclaimed objectives of a website. This can be achieved by building a simple and effective user interface throughly based on the expressed goals for the website and the trusted skills and common sense of web designers.

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