Helpful Resources

Far From Over

We hope this series has been helpful. This is just the beginning. Like Digital Design, this document is a journey, not a destination. Like the industry, our business, interface design, and the world, we will continue expanding and enhancing this document in the future.

Between now and our next update, we encourage you to take advantage of the myriad of resources available on the themes, concepts, and principles here. Use them as you deem necessary.

1. Successful Web Design: It’s All About The Details: A great tool for general web design concepts, including color, contrast, spacing, and consistency.
2. Top 10 Mistakes that Make your Website Look Unprofessional: You’ll find several helpful tips on f what not to do.
3. The Importance of Visual Appeal in Web Design: Information about the emotional appeal in web design. If your interface stimulates an emotional appeal, people are more likely to remember it.
4. The Typographic Scale: Detailed discussion about typography. Does a great job communicate something seemingly trivial such as font choice can have a large impact?

The following are additional resources with topics ranging from user experience and interface to CSS coding. There’s a wealth of knowledge out there and much more to be discovered about what tactics are the most effective in such a fluid field. Happy hunting.

Additional Resources:

• http://typ.io/libraries/google
• https://fontpair.co/
• https://www.reliablepsd.com/ultimate-google-font-pairings/
• Building Better UI Designs With Layout Grids
• 6 Reasons to Choose the Bootstrap CSS Framework
• How To Create a Web Design Style Guide
• 7 SIMPLE RULES FOR MOBILE TYPOGRAPHY
• 3 Text Spacing Principles Every Designer Needs to Know
• Basic Alignment Principles in Graphic Design
• Space in Design Systems
• Best UX practices for line spacing
• Thinking with type – Text
• Typographic Design Patterns And Best Practices