8 things that make a web designer unique

Graphic design and web design have some similarities. They are both visual and depend on the harmony between text and image to get a message across.

After that, the agreement ends. Read the 8 most important differences below.

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Web design is dynamically

Graphic design is often referred to as offline design, where the end result is almost always linear and static. Web design is the opposite. If you were to compare graphic design and web design, that is the same as comparing a painting with a tablet.

Web design is about interaction, where graphic design is actually consumed alone. Web designers should think about all possible paths a user can take and add interactive elements to them.

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Optimal velocity

In principle, offline design has no limits. The opposite is true for web design. A website must work as optimally as possible on all possible digital devices. This means that a website must be optimized from front to back, because a slow website is by definition not a good one.

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Typograph

Unfortunately, when choosing your fonts, you are not free to use what you want. This is also about speed, because you can't afford to use 4-5 fonts with 8 variations each.

Fortunately, the number of web fonts available is growing and web designers can choose, although selectively, from an increasing source of (web) fonts.

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Web design is all-encompassing

In contrast to offline design, where you work with exact and fixed dimensions, a web designer must take into account in his/her design that there is no fixed size. Everything is variable.

Consideration should be given to each part of the website, and how it adapts as a screen gets smaller or larger. The trick is to get the right message across as effectively as possible for every component, for every screen and device.

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Constant developmental and growth

A website is a living thing that changes continuously. In fact, a website is never finished. Interactive elements, Call to actions and a change in offerings are all subject to change.

Just like an urban planner, this constant development also means that when creating a website, the web designer must carefully assess how the website will grow. It can save a lot of time and money if extra space is taken into account for this growth, both visually and technically.

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Long-term relationship

A major advantage of web design, in contrast to offline design, is that it can always be modified, expanded and improved. This is also an immediate disadvantage. This has to do with accessibility, among other things, because comments, suggestions and constructive or unconstructive criticism are hot on the digital highway.

All measurable statistics from Google Analytics and other possibly linked systems can also indicate every day that a change or adjustment is desirable.

Long story short: After a new website goes live, a whole new process begins based on all kinds of feedback and statistics, and it's wise to do something with it.

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Strategy and Technics

A good web designer operates exactly between the strategic and technical levels. With a strategic (communication) plan, you must be able to come up with a design that is technically feasible. Vice versa, this is important for web applications, where you need to be able to give a technical system the right face so that it also works at a strategic level.

Fortunately, there are more and more tools, such as Webflow, which, in particular, bring web design and technology closer together. In combination with e.g. Zapier, you have maximum control and speed in executing a strategic plan, in a visual environment, with the latest techniques on a maximally secure platform.

It is not without reason that we are increasingly working with these packages at iX Studios.

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Safety

Last but not least, a good web builder doesn't just use (online) software and the first and best web connection with other applications in the cloud. When sending personal data, you use a secure https:// connection (SSL), which is also mandatory in Europe from May 25, 2018.

In addition, you prefer to use 2-step verification, secure passwords, or rather passphrases, with all online accounts.

For security reasons, among other things, we do not work with Joomla or Wordpress in advance, but if you do use this as a web builder, make sure everything is updated automatically. If you don't deal with this carefully, you run more risk than necessary. The damage can range from a single spam run to the loss of an entire site, potentially including all (personal) data that was included in it. So serious business.

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Hoping to have provided insight into the extensive package of knowledge and skills that a good web designer has

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Source: The scope and content of this article are based on a nice article by Webflow.

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