Hustling for mapping out the ideas into a real design is the most common situation for a beginner designer. It is also quite complicated to follow all the rules of design in the initial stage of working and learning. But, failing in applying methods and rules can ruin your landing page and make your brand appearance unprofessional.
To resolve this complication, we have some life-saving secrets and hacks of designing.
Here you go:
TOP 5 HACKS & TRICKS OF DESIGNING
1. Sketch your Idea: If you are always up for the crazy no-planning tricks, then you need to understand that you are going to create a mess. You should always create a blueprint of your ideas and layout to reach your design effectively. Sketches are always a great way of rapid brainstorming.
2. Effective Typography: Typography is an art of arrangement of letters to elicit certain kinds of emotions. It carries 90% of the design. That’s why it is hard to become good at it.
Following are some pointers to achieve the best results in typography:
- Apply the line of the height of 1.6 to all of the body text. It helps to define the amount of space above and below the inline elements properly.
- It is often hard to pick fonts and combine them. Pick 2 different fonts, one for the body and one for the headlines. After it, multiply the body font size by 2.5 to get the headline size.
- Limit your line to 58 characters per line. It is used to make the text more scannable to read while ending any column.
- With the heavy use of typography, it is hard to visually differentiate the content. For example a newspaper. Adding a line underneath or on the side of any text helps to visually separate the content.
- A core principle is the consistent use of the same style across your page specially if it is a branding and marketing agency industry web/app page. After doing the one page, maintain the use of the same style across the entire app or website
- White space is not an empty space, it is a graphical tool. If your layout is not looking right, then it needs some more white space. Feel free to add it.
4. Hierarchy: The concept of the hierarchy can help a designer to simplify his complicated design to the users. It tends to personify the efficiently managed content on the page. So, list all the important elements of your piece according to their importance. You can also highlight the most important element by making it bigger and most contrasting.
5. Stealing is an art: Rather than copying the whole design from any website. You can simply pick different ideas for your different elements. Such as use navigation from one website or footer from another one. This hack helps you to understand the basic idea & concepts of design until you get mature in this field.
Conclusion
The more a designer researches the customer's industry, the more his vision gets clear about the designs. And finding out the strengths and specialization will help you work faster and efficiently in the creative field of design. We at Branding By8, the leading branding agency in Dubai ask our designers to do extensive industry research before they start designing and this has helped us deliver some remarkable designs.
