If you have a strong penchant for web designing, but lack of impeccable craftsmanship, grip on design and professional education have always impeded your ways to walk on this path of designing W3, then you should give your decision a second thought. In this fast-paced era, where everything from your food ordering to the purchase of your favorite dress is taking place online, nothing seems impossible! Of course, pulling off a perfect web design strategy and plan is no mean feat, but the plethora of useful resources and online forums and a tad bit of practice can easily change your desire into reality. If your earnest desire is to take the plunge in the orb of web designing in 2016, you are in for a treat today as we are outlining 16 best resources from one of the most coveted online forums – Slideshare. These amazing resources will swerve up your design game and can provide you the impetus to sharpen your design skills and muster up the courage to finally try your hands at web designing. Make these resources your vade mecum and your passion for web designing will culminate to exude a more professional outlook in no time.
1. Eleven Excellent Web Design Tips for Businesses by eDesignAvenue
Before you develop understanding about the intricate details of different components that must be considered, you must know about some major and important factors that contribute to the overall appeal of the web design. This resource succinctly enlightens a neophyte web designer with all these major components.
2. Eleven Ways To Design Sticky Websites by DesignMantic
First of all develop understanding about the nub of designing a website. This slide-show not only highlights how you can design an attention grabbing website, but if you thoroughly observe the slides and pay close attention, you will get to know many elements of a website.
3. Beyond Usability: Designing with Persuasive Patterns by Anders Toxboe
When you start something, you want to develop profound understanding about it. To further strengthen your concepts about attractive web design this is another resource that would answer your ‘how’ to design is this slide share. While you’ll learn a lot about captivating design in the above resource, this will tell you about persuasive design, i.e. designing a web page that not only attract visitors but will also make them stay and roam around all the pages.
4. 2016 Color Trends & Mood Boards For Design Projects by Rude Color
Color and mood boards are quintessence of web design and are one of the foremost things that you would be making decisions about while designing websites. This resource opens up a new avenue to inspire you when it comes to colors and design themes.
Source: Rude Color
5. A Primer To Lean UX by DesignMantic
Acquire all the information about designing a website by keeping in mind users’ experience. The prime purpose of a well-designed website is to give its users a smooth experience. This slide share highlights the whole process of designing a website by keeping this important perspective in mind.
6. Lecture on Typefaces by Alexei Kapterev
When it comes to web design every intricate factor matters a lot. The typeface that you are going to use in your web design can affect overall appeal of the design; therefore, it is imperative to have a complete know-how about typefaces. This resource will not only help you in web design, but will acquaint you with some basic knowledge that you can employ in everything that you are going to design.
7. Introduction to Building Wireframes by Davide Folletto Casali
Wireframing is one of the most effective techniques, especially for new web designers. It visually lays out the design of the website and is an important stage of the development process. If you are trying your hands in web designing, this tool can immensely benefit you. Learn the basics of building wireframes through this resource and excel in your design game.
8. Wireframing, Mockups, and Prototyping Made Easy by John Collins
Another resource to learn about wireframing and prototyping. With the help of visual presentation, this particular resource is easy to understand and quick way to grasp ideas about the concepts of wireframing and prototyping.
9. Style Guide Best Practices by Brad Frost
Style guide encompasses various design elements, images, rules and graphics. This guide can be a roadmap to a nascent web designer and is definitely a tool that can help him score a cohesive and consistent design of the web. This resource shares A to Z of style guide that too in a practical way.
10. Sketchnoting: 10 Tips to get Started by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Although, not directly related to the web designing but can lend a helping hand to a newbie to work on the layout and design. This resource actually opens up your horizons and invites unlimited creativity. The notions about creativity that this slide show highlight will allow you to bring your individual style in your designs and will break you free from to explore out of the box ideas.
11. User Interface that Works by YOPESO
From design basic principles to visual weight and depth, the slide share is no less than taking up an online course in designing. With clean layout, simple language and proper explanation, this resource is a go-to option for the new web designers who wants to sharpen his design skills and acquire knowledge about design concepts.
12. User Experience Factors That Can Make or Break Your Website by Chris Marentis
Employ the most important facet of users’ experience in your web design by taking a cue or two from this resource. This info-graphic will introduce you with some of the crucial factors that are important to consider in the design of the website to let your users have a good experience.
13. Adapting to Responsive Web Design by Matt Gibson
In today’s technologically advanced and fast-paced era, adapting to a responsive design is ot utmost importance. The web design must be compatible across all the mediums and platforms. Endless inventions and devices call for careful designing and make it more responsive. Learn to adapt to responsive web design through this slide share and incorporate this very potent element in your design.
14. Best Practices for Great Landing Page by Teachable
Landing page occupies immense importance in the web design. Therefore, there is no room for mistakes and extra attention needs to be paid while working on the landing page. Get the basic understanding and useful tips to design an attractive landing page through this resource.
15. Attention-Driven Design: 23 Visual Principles For Designing More Persuasive Landing Pages by Unbounce
On one hand, the above resource pays emphasis on the basics of the landing page; on the other hand, this resource is more about the mechanics and technicalities involved in the design of the landing page. This source mentions all the important things to make your landing page attractive and sticky.
16. Ten Web Design Mistakes To Avoid by Happy Marketer
While you equip yourself with all the skills and things that can help you design an impressive web, you must also note things that you should avoid. This resource simply jots down some basic and most common mistakes to avoid in a web design.
