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Web Design Trends 2010
- tokenadult 17y agoHow do clients measure the business effectiveness of their website designs?
- nreece 17y agoA/B Split Testing and Funnel Analysis are two effective ways. Gathering feedback works in many cases too.
- patio11 17y agoDirty little secret: overwhelmingly, they don't.
- ThomPete 17y agoClients don't measure the business effectiveness of their websites as such, they measure lead-generation and conversion. Most of the sites in that SM article don't have business objectives other than to showcase great design.
- patio11 17y agoThis is one of my... frustrations with the online design community. I wish there was a site devoted to the Mailchimps of the world: applications that do things for people and look great doing it.
- ThomPete 17y agoThe problem is that most of those sites are not interesting from an aesthetic point of view. And that is the problem with SM IMHO. It talks about functionality and business and trends and optimization but uses only eye candy to prove it's point. Don't get me wrong. I am all for good looking design, but it's quite obvious that unless you are able to sell your style. Style isn't part of what ultimately makes a business successful.
- marknutter 17y agoTell that to Apple.
- NEPatriot 17y agoI just look at YC companies for great functional simple design
- ihodes 17y agoAbsolutely gorgeous. I want more. God, but it makes me feel bad. My attempts as design are pitiful compared to some of those (most of those... all of those?) examples. Gives me a lot to look up to, and much to aspire to.
- dbz 17y ago"reliable support of Web standards in the major browsers." Ha Ha Ha...
- sumeeta 17y agoI was expecting some mention of CSS text shadows.
- Tichy 17y agoThere seems to be a danger of designers designing pages to be attractive for other designers. None of the pages were particularly attractive to me (non-designer). Attractive to me would be something that indicates interesting content. For designers, typography and graphics are interesting content.
- jim_dot 17y agoYeah I was thinking that as I scrolled through.. Yeah they're pretty in a "here's 25 cool designs" blog post, but I can't honestly say I would be able to look at these designs for any substantial amount of time, and they certainly wouldn't be acceptable for any kind of SaaS sites.
- marknutter 17y agoIt's really not about what you as an individual find attractive, but what the vast majority of people find attractive. We all have our preferences, and design is a somewhat subjective thing, but the best designs will resonate with the highest percentage of people, and aid in the functionality of the site too.
- Tichy 17y agoI don't see the point of your remark. Are you saying I am not qualified to have an opinion on web design? No, we should let the "experts" decide, never think for ourselves. The experts are always right. How do you know the designs given appeal to the majority of people? And not just appeal as in "I'd like to frame it and stick it to my wall" but as in "I'd like to use this".
- 9lessonslabs 17y agoImpressive post