Designers love to make things look nice, but do they actually work in the rest of their team's favour or against it. Well in this blog, we'll dive into 7 things that you should avoid doing as a designer to make the rest of your team love you forever!
When designing a website one common thing we see is designers doing things because they look "good" but the reality is that although they look nice, it doesn't always mean they're practical. Modern-day design has always had this thing of having a centred logo, we see it all the time but having a logo in the centre of your header comes with a few main issues.
Another thing we often see in website design is using animated banners or carousal-style banners for the homepage. While they may look good, loading all those assets for only one page is quite time-consuming. So when designing a website next time remember that site speed is a crucial factor when it comes to search engine optimisation.
When designing things it's very easy to forget that It actually needs to be made by someone. So creating a beautiful-looking button may seem like a great idea but some poor developer will have to code each part of it to make it work. So next time you design a website, save your developers some time and design with usability and efficiency in mind.
In the modern world, we are constantly moving around, Did you know that on average, people spend around 3 hours and 15 minutes on their phone each day? Your phone is the easiest thing to use to access the internet as it's always on your person. So the next time you design a website make sure it will look good and work as intended on mobile devices like phones and tablets.
We hear the terms UX(user-experience) and UI(User-Interface) design all the time and each of them plays a role in how your audience experiences and interacts with your website but then you'll see the massive amounts of navigation that get put into one nav bar. When creating a navigation bar it's important to only include the main core parts of your website, things like about, services, etc. If your site has lots of key pages for example if you run a shop, then consider adding the main best-selling or most searched product categories.
When It comes to designing a website designers only tend to think about what they can do to make it look nice, but how it looks to us greatly differs from how it looks to search engines. Taking note of key SEO practices is a great way to make better websites that work and help customers understand key practices. One prime example of this is when designing websites designers will put the main title (h1) as Welcome to [insert company name], and then an SEO specialist will change that so it makes sense to search engines and gets them ranking on the search engine results page (SERP).
Now that you know what the rest of your team thinks about when making a website, you can become a more considerate and versatile designer when it comes to website design. Not only will you understand what your developers have to do but you will also understand some best practices for making not only the user's life easier but also the SEO specialists who have to optimise your website.
