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The Science Behind Design: 8 Psychology Principles to Apply to Your Next Project

The Science Behind Design: 8 Psychology Principles to Apply to Your Next Project | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

When it comes down to it, design is all about making choices. Each color, shape, line, font, text, and graphic you use will ultimately influence the message you're trying to get across.

I’ve often been in conversations with people who know they should get better at design, but they don’t feel they have a “natural sense” for creativity. However, I argue that learning to design well has as much to do with psychology and user behavior as it does creativity.

But learning the "psychology of design" doesn’t mean picking up a playbook that'll tell you the right and wrong way to design something. That's just not the way it works.


What brushing up on psychological principles (as they relate to design) will do is help you understand what goes into the creation of intuitive, intentional design experiences. 

Want to learn more? We'll dive into a handful of psychological principles below to help you get the wheels turning.... 

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Knowing the psychology of design can help you get better results from your marketing campaigns.

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5 Killer & Easy To Forget Web Design Basics

5 Killer & Easy To Forget Web Design Basics | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Web Design Basics
Love these five web design basics:

* Learn TYPE Design.
* Pick Great Fonts That Fit Your TONE.
* Pick 3 Color Palette & STICK TO IT.
* Photos = RIGHT SIZE.
* When In Doubt, Give It SPACE.

This last tip is our favorite. Nothing we hate more than claustrophobic web design. Problem is claustrophobia is easy to create. We all WANT to do so much.

When I was an Ecommerce Director we studied our links carefully. We found that 5% of our links received 90% of the clicks. That equation turned out to be a fractal. No matter how small we cut it, no matter how we shifted the design, a small % of the links dominated.

This means MOST of what WE, as designers, think is important isn't. We learned to be Google - Vicious about what we added. Adding meant something had to COME OFF the design. This strange User Interface math means you have more ROOM than you realize.

Find what matters and LINK IT. Design what matters and eliminate the flotsam and jetsam so you have SPACE around what matters since it is that SPACE that signals IMPORTANCE to your visitors.  .


Via Martin (Marty) Smith
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Awesome web design advice. Highly recommended.  9/10

Lori Wilk's curator insight, November 11, 2014 9:04 PM

Fabulous#design #advice from Marty Smith. It reminds me that when you are not an #expert in something, get someone who is to help guide your #success

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Designing the Perfect Web Banner Ad: 50 Examples to Help You Get it Right

Designing the Perfect Web Banner Ad: 50 Examples to Help You Get it Right | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Banner ads – we see them everywhere.


Normally they’re bright, flashy, and encroach on your internet experience. We’ve all tried our best to become immune to them. It’s safe to say they’ve got quite a bad rap.


In actuality, web banner ads are great tools to spread a message to a large audience. But with so many terrible examples of banner ads pummeling us every day, how do you stand out (in a good way) and really make an impression?


To save you some time, we’ve taken the liberty of curating 50 great examples of web banner advertisements to help and inspire you to create your own....

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Banner ad design tips worth reading with grewat examples.

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