An efficient responsive design
Focus on:
- Integrating other frameworks into the bootstrap framework that we are already using.
- Using minimal design, enough to brand the website but not take over the usability of the website.
- Using extensive grid-like layouts, which will allow the user to easily scan for content they may be interested in or trying to find.
- Adding text summaries to bigger pieces of content to save space, allowing the user to easily ignore content they don’t want.
- Adopting horizontal navigation, sub-menus, mega-dropdowns, and more, all for easy-to-filter content.
- Getting creative with tabs, accordions, navigation, and other forms of space saving methods.
- Emphasizing the clickable areas that can help guide the user, like breadcrumbs.
- Making sure popups, notifications, ads, and more are user-friendly to deal with if they are absolutely needed.
- Using buttons or button-like design for simple actions, main links, etc.
- Keeping interaction in its simplest form. Cut out any extra capabilities, and allow the user to focus on the most important actions.
UI UX design trends:
- Laser focus – this will put visual focus on a single, obvious task to do once a user opens the web application, instead of providing several equally important options.
- Context sensitive navigation – this will ensure we declutter the design.
- Collapsed content – this is where you hide non-essential options and widgets under one link which will expand and collapse on a user’s request.
- Content chunking – this is a technique of presenting a large amount of content in smaller chunks
eMail: george.mutune@harambesa.co.ke