10 Signs You Have No Idea What You’re Doing As A Designer

What are the design features which make any website bad? There are always many potential pitfalls which are hard to imagine. Even the design elements which may appear good to the untrained eye can get some unexpected kind of results. Hence knowing about these hidden landmines is imperative in the process of building a website.

For now, allow me to mention here the ten signs of web designing which will give you a better designing idea. These will not only be helpful to the designers but also to people looking forward to have a website. So finally if you really want to embark with competent web design, just make sure that you avoid the following mistakes as a designer:

1)      Your website lacks personality

To be frank enough, the user visit any website search some specific product or piece of information, hence your site needs to fulfill all his thrust about the product he is searching for. If your site does not possess any purpose and sense of self, the user will surely be switching over to the next choice available over search engine.

Make sure that you design your website especially home page as impressive as it is your calling card. The content and design has to be with a clear purpose with irrelevant or even repetitive kind of content. Hence such website will lack the calls to action for sales or for more in depth site exploration.

2)      The failure to build credibility

The most important aspect of any website is to build it’s credibility amongst users. If at all you fail to put the trust and confidence in your users and readers you are going to hamper the success of your website. So better you keep the content and information discovered on your pages should be trustworthy for the content.

If you see grammatical errors and wrong spelling in your content you are likely to lose credibility. This gives lack of visual cleanliness and your website appears to be outdated. So with such impression you will always fail to build credibility among visitors.

3)   Text not readable

No user sticks to a website where the he gets a strain over his eyes while reading. That means, if you are lacking in terms of contrast color between your font type and your website background, get it done rightly. This can certainly cause a huge legibility problem. The small text used in the website too can create problems for the visitors especially the old people.

Using large chunks of text can be discouraging to the visitors coming to your website. Improper use of styles in fonts like bold, underline, italic and upper case too can be disastrous for the web designers.

4)      Confusing website navigation

The worst thing about any website design is developing website which has shoddy, poor or confusing navigation. So you better take care of some major designing issues which move around links that are not easily identifiable. The links which are descriptive in their title and unable to function actually irritates a lot to the users. The navigation which is confusing and distracting will bring no result for you. So do take care of this aspect as well.

5)      The distracting design elements

Incorporating a number of special features can be distracting for your users. The inexperienced or overambitious designers have the idea of putting a number of special features as they consider them as impressive.

However, such features can create a serious eyesore and distract the visitors from the important content. So avoid this feature as well for successful web design.

6)      The auto-play media

You can distract the users coming to your website with auto play media. If your user is of serious nature and needs only information, in this case you might irritate him. So, no need to play any music when people just want to read the content over your website.

Moreover, you might argue that there is nothing wrong in putting these media elements since they can be creative opening to a web page, however, it is all about the way you present it over your website. It should be the choice of the visitors coming to your website whether to listen to the music or go through the flash presentation. So if you put across some automatic tidal wave of media it will simply increase the annoyance level of the visitors.

7)      Your website is too demanding and takes too long to settle down things

If at all your web design features starts testing the patience of your users, do make sure that you cannot gain the success you which you are looking for your site.

So if the user have to struggle to find information or have to wait long for your site to load on their browser, make sure you have something wrong in your website. Your site takes long to load due to the presence of too many large size images which also gives a messy and unprofessional appearance to your homepage.

8)      Missing out important information

One of the biggest sign of wrong design, is missing out the important information like the contact details. So if the customer is looking forward to speak to anyone regarding some product or services the website is catering, he/she has no body to clear his doubts and apprehensions.

If the ecommerce website is unable to put all the important and required information about the products they are selling like price, features and other key elements then they are going to fail at the end of the day.

9)      Too many efforts to look different

Being a straightforward person might help you in your personal life, but with a site along with such content could be the worst thong for you.

Though it’s important to be a different in the plethora of websites, but this can be done with competent content, good pictures, easy and simple navigation and some stunning graphics. Trying too many things together to look different can mess your website design, which is generally a bad idea to try. So avoid.

10)   Your website is not search engines friendly

Finally, if your website cannot be found by the search engines you will find hardly any user coming to your website. Just putting up good content and rich design will not suffice if you are unable to make your website search engine friendly.

The inexperienced designers can miss out this important feature of web design or consider SEO keywords which are not result oriented. At the same time if you use these keywords at too many places at the very same page, it will give unprofessional look. So, in this case the call is all yours, what you can do to manage both the things, i.e. content and SEO.

If you want to be a successful and competent kind of web designer, you should always try to avoid the above discussed habits of web design. Many of these signs or habits may appear too trivial, but ignoring them can be fatal to your website, so make sure you avoid them while creating a web design for any kind of website.

About the author: Claudia is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on technology and luxury. Beside this she is fond of gadgets. Recently an article on dyson air multiplier attracted her attention. These days she is busy in writing an article on Mac Apps.