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Design Patterns in Current Web Design

Posted by martin
on 10 February 2006

Drawing on examples from a few sites I know quite well (Spread Firefox, Linkedin), and quite a lot more I don't, here's an analysis of the design patterns used by the best of current web designs:

Simple layout
3D effects, used sparingly
Soft, neutral background colours
Strong colour, used sparingly
Cute icons, used sparingly
Plenty of whitespace
Nice big text

See the examples, and a fuller explanation of each of the patterns at
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm

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