Good and Bad Design

After reading through these two chapters, I guess our final web pages should be as succinct as possible. The more you want to show off, the more mistakes you will commit.

Those principles of web design are de facto all common sense. Basically we just need to conform to the rule that the web page is a tool for communication between us and viewers, so it has to be easily readable and understandable. If you find your web page annoying or too complicated to understand, your viewers will feel the same way.

But personally speaking, I would prefer some animation in my web pages, in order to make them more vigorous and fun. I noticed that in the “not-so-good” checklist, animations that never stop are supposed to be avoided. It makes sense because animations will detract viewers’ attention from the main points in a web page. But I have a question that how to make our web pages more attractive? If we just totally meet those principles, it is highly possible that our web pages will be sophisticated, but tedious.

In addition, I found it interesting that there are also some mistakes in those examples for good web design, such as the second one. It doesn’t conform to the principle of alignment. So does the fourth one.