The document discusses principles that web designers can learn from print designers. It suggests using larger font sizes, different font faces, and more color in typography. For whitespace, it recommends using it to create structure, letting content breathe, and giving visitors rest. It also advises against limiting designs to small browser canvases and to think bigger. Composition principles include dividing text into columns, incorporating copy into layouts, and creating contrast. The document stresses designing content and surrounding elements as a unified visual language to communicate and tell a story.
23. ‣ Don’t get stuck in that
tiny browser canvas
‣ Your design should be
part of something bigger
24. ‣ Don’t get stuck in that
tiny browser canvas
‣ Your design should be
part of something bigger
‣ Don’t create a limiting
environment
25. ‣ Don’t get stuck in that
tiny browser canvas
‣ Your design should be
part of something bigger
‣ Don’t create a limiting
environment
‣ Don’t stair through a
window, just look at the
sky directly!
30. ‣ Experiment with columns,
text in multiple columns?
‣ Your copy should be
part of the lay-out
31. ‣ Experiment with columns,
text in multiple columns?
‣ Your copy should be
part of the lay-out
‣ Stop designing boring
websites
32. ‣ Experiment with columns,
text in multiple columns?
‣ Your copy should be
part of the lay-out
‣ Stop designing boring
websites
‣ Create contrast using
composition
37. ‣ Your design should
communicate something
‣ Design & content need
to become “one”
38. ‣ Your design should
communicate something
‣ Design & content need
to become “one”
‣ There’s no such thing as;
“One template to rule
them all”
39. ‣ Your design should
communicate something
‣ Design & content need
to become “one”
‣ There’s no such thing as;
“One template to rule
them all”
‣ Design your content, not
only the surrounding
elements
40. ‣ Your design should
communicate something
‣ Design & content need
to become “one”
‣ There’s no such thing as;
“One template to rule
them all”
‣ Design your content, not
only the surrounding
elements
‣ Your header & footer
shouldn’t be the only
Climax
46. “My complaint, right now, is that the majority of
storytelling that happens on the Web is based in
the interactively rich environment made possible
by Flash”
...not enough Web standards-minded
designers are thinking narratively in the
way that our Flash-fluent colleagues are...
Khoi Vinh