Web Design – You Can Never Have Too Much Minimalism
It seems that minimalism is never going to go out of style. Latest exhibit: Minimalist Web Design: When Less is More. A long tutorial on what exactly it is that makes a site design minimalist, and some excellent examples at the bottom.
One thing that we notice is that designers often spoil the effect of a minimalist design. They get the layout and whitespace right, then ruin it by cluttering it up with a lot of loud images and flashy elements. You wouldn’t make a delicate, creamy Alfredo pasta dish and then overwhelm it with a lot of Tobasco sauce, would you? Studying the examples on the article and thinking it over, here’s the best images to use with a minimalist design:
- Origami – Note the one example in the showcase that has a folded paper crane. Perfect! Minimalist art form goes with minimalist design.
- Big fonts – Large type accentuates the typography, making visitor focus on the words and not look for distractions.
- Black and white photography – Always should be simple subjects and light grays, unless you want to go for impact and drama, in which case, darker grays.
- Clean vector art – Simple, large drawings of gentle objects (butterflies, clouds, flowers) rest the mind when they’re drawn in delicate shades. making people feel good to be there is a key to getting a lower bounce rate.
- Geometry – Almost goes without saying.
Peter Brittain