Must Design
75.5K views | +0 today
Follow
Must Design
Design Is Revolutionary
Your new post is loading...
Scooped by Martin (Marty) Smith
Scoop.it!

Drop These 15 Web Design Buzz Words At Your Next Hipster Party

Drop These 15 Web Design Buzz Words  At Your Next Hipster Party | Must Design | Scoop.it
You'll never feel left out at a hipster web design party with these 15 key terms under your belt
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

Yes a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and most of our web designers at http://www.Curagami.com wouldn't know CMYK if it jumped up and smacked 'em, but knowing these other 14 "web design buzz words" is a good idea. Since we hang out at a least one hipster web design party a week we can fit right in (lol). M

No comment yet.
Scooped by Martin (Marty) Smith
Scoop.it!

Magic of the GRID: 60+ Website Grid Design Examples Inspire

Magic of the GRID: 60+ Website Grid Design Examples Inspire | Must Design | Scoop.it
There is no doubt that currently almost everything on the internet is becoming image-driven. If you think for a moment, it is only really catching up with print
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

Little did I know how prescient I was. In 1999 when I created FoundObjects.com (now gone sadly), one of the first B2B and B2C specialty gift sites,

I decided to use a Mondrian Grid that you can see on the WayBackMachine: http://web.archive.org/web/19991127134326/http://www.foundobjects.com/

I used Mondrian's grid because it was brand aligned to the FoundObjects.com's museum store customers. The grid also helped organize a lot of information. Organizing a LOT of information in an easy to understand pattern is the advantage of using a grid in your web design as these more than 60 examples show.

No comment yet.
Scooped by Martin (Marty) Smith
Scoop.it!

18 Pivotal 2014 Web Design Trends [+ Scenttrail take]

18 Pivotal 2014 Web Design Trends [+ Scenttrail take] | Must Design | Scoop.it

What web design trends do you think we'll see in 2014? I'm betting on more simplicity, more cleanliness, and more focus on smaller screen sizes, among other things.

Marty Note

1. Flat UI - AGREE and general agreement.2. 'Mobile first' - AGREE! & trying to wrestle that pig to ground now with CrowdFunde.3. Yet more scrolling - Agree and coming from mobile too.

4. More HTML5 goodness - Agree.

5. More HTML5 badness - Yes goes hand-in-hand with #4

6. Micro UX - New to me, can't judge yet.

7. Less text - Agree we are moving to the visual web and lean content (more infographics, arresting images and graphics less text)


.8. Minimalist navigation - Agree and this is coming from MOBILE (working CrowdFunde's "mobile first" design right now and navigation is expensive in mobile.


9. CSS replaces images - Agree CSS Canvas is going to make many images needless weight on the page.


10. Video / moving backgrounds - AGREE!


11. Richer content experiences - Agree especially video.


12. Making the most of one page - Agree, but don't agree with single page sites (we aren't there yet).


13. Varied typography - Agree there is a lot happening on the server side with type.


14. Monochromatic design - New to me, but more likely than


15. Hypercolour - Not Sure color is easy to do BAD online and more color can make a mess.


16. Cards / tiles - Fascinating and new to me, read why cards are future of the web

http://insideintercom.io/why-cards-are-the-future-of-the-web/


17. Bigger, better imagery (Agree, cloud caching and CDNs making this possible).


18. Fixed position content / navigation - Agree as social widgets already doing this

Tyler Richendollar's curator insight, March 6, 2014 10:38 AM

Some seriously great design ideas and trends for 2014 and forward.  Really a solid summary of what the web looks like today, and will evolve through.