Sunday, November 30, 2014

5 Things About Web Designing You Don’t Know





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Being Aware of the Emotional Connection Developed in Your Website

Whether you would care to believe it or not, every design you or web designing companies in Dubai create have this ability to influence certain emotion on its viewers. Suffice it to say, every project you make has this tendency to connect with its users. Truthfully stating, the elements presented on any Dubai website design communicate a message and a tone. On that note, the focus of this composition is to highlight emotional tone and working to better understand it.

Basically, each Dubai web Development output bears emotional connections and they each fall into four basic category pairs. These are joy and sadness, trust and disgust, fear and anger, and surprise and anticipation. Understanding this range of emotion and how it relates to a visual message is important so that your design projects are received as they are intended.

1. Joy and sadness
“Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth” – is the popular line from Pharrel William’s song Happy and if there is one take away from that line it would be the indication that happiness is contagious. If that impression is embedded unto your Dubai web design, it simply means that people would want to share it with other people. They would post it on their social media accounts, tell their friends about it or through many other ways. 

Sadness, on the other hand, also has the ability to connect with viewers in a somewhat similar manner which also causes them to do the same. It’s basically like an empathy link. In retrospect, people perceive a deeper connection when it comes to happy and sad aesthetics. This is all because it gives them the corresponding vibes along with the positive and the negative emotional association. 

2. Trust and disgust
The similarities for both aspects are actually uncanny because they go hand – in – hand as the line between them are crossed easily. This is what it means to generate visuals that appear real and believable in the eyes of the viewers that they will associate themselves with it. It doesn’t necessarily have to be fantastical; it just has to bear a hint of trustworthiness. 

Failure to create this kind of impression would immediately shift he viewer’s perception to disgust. Once that happens, your users will have difficulty in relating to the message and connecting to the visuals of the content you are presenting. 

3. Fear and anger
The thing about having a design that incurs negative emotions on your viewers is that it leaves a long lasting effect. Emotions of anger and negativity are susceptible to that impression. On such manner, these visual emotional cues have the tendency to lead to aggression or stubbornness. From that moment on, the impact of the images would become unpredictable.

4. Surprise and anticipation
The element of unexpectedness has the cornerstone to entertain and make a connection with a user. Interesting visual actions or elements have the capability to accomplish this. With that, surprise comes with either fear or happiness towards creating an overall emotional connection.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

The Effective Tools to Help You Retain Creativity for Your Web Design Outputs

Good job! You’re finally able to finish another project that impressed the clients to such positive degrees. You’re now in the process of moving on to another workload when you realized you wanted to collect your output on this one but your hard drive is somehow making it impossible for you to keep all of the elements that led you to compose such a creative output.

What then are you supposed to do? Worry not. Here are some tools that can help you in collecting your creative outputs hassle free!

Ember

“We’ve built Ember to be your VISUAL MEMORY” – This software makes it easy for individuals of Dubai website design to capture screenshots, full on web pages and anything plausibly acquired from the World Wide Web. With the way the company labels it as a visual memory; they are able to offer a brief and concise understanding to the prospective users of this profuse system. However, this software is specifically created for MAC users that functions to save every bits of your work without the hassle. It has a built – in wish list and can be synced to Dropbox or iCloud.

Evernote

The application known to serve when it comes to online collecting, Evernote is a highly effective tool that you can use in acquiring online content from images to articles to full on web pages. It allows you to profusely organize your collections both in – progress and completed. What’s more interesting that it’s available for multiple gadget platforms.  Whether you are a MAC user or a Windows aficionado, this app will surely deliver.  Professionals of web designing Dubai utilize this app in a way that it syncs across all their devices which makes it accessible anytime, anywhere.

Historious

Wish to create an accurate and active portfolio? Historious assists its users in manifold ways. When it comes to revisions, Historious help in solving problems related to such. Common web design companies in Dubai keep on making changes on their websites. It’s normal as it is part of the way their site progresses but overtime, the reason and processes of these changes get forgotten or overlooked. What Historious does is that it can help explain the entirety of your thought process whilst you’re making these changes. With that, you are then able to come up with effective design strategy on your coming projects.

Licorize

A tool that does exemplarily in terms of management, Licorize is an effective management tool used by professional web designers. To start with, it acts as a bookmarking tool that helps in collecting selected information and ideas that can later on be developed into project files. Such a tool can be used profusely by individuals or teams alike. Specifically, its functions go from acquiring ideas or bookmarks and turn them to notes, lists or boards; a web life timeline that connects with other common apps; it also has association tools so anyone can join or see a project you are working on; and the capability to make any project public or private.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Getting to Know the Common File Formats for Web Design UAE

As you take on the usual programming of developing an avant-garde website, there are some things that you ought to be familiar with. Composing a site is the same as making a song. You need the lyrics and the melody to come together to make a unified creative medium. For web design UAE, you got the developing and the designing. Developing is akin to creating the lyrics whereas designing is like the melody which adds flavor to the entire medium.

In adding the flavor to your entire website, you ought to familiarize yourself with the most commonly used file formats that make up such a creative medium. Below are files used under the Raster category which has dot matrix data structure, more commonly known as pixels.

JPG – Joint Photographic Experts Group

The JPG is used as a standard in images that have high photographic quality but with low image resolution. Once you scale files of this format, you tend to lose its high quality over the pixel width. Those who are experts of graphic design Dubai tend to overlook this kind of format when dealing with high quality image that don’t have backgrounds. This format is discouraged for printing usage.

PNG – Portable Network Graphics

The most widely used format when it comes to internet image transfer. This format, however, is also not used much for print. However, it supports transparency. Artists would use this when they wish to come up with a logo designin Dubai or for other decent imaging projects. It makes for a crisper visage on the outputs whether it be text on first-hand image but cannot be scaled in a way that it surpasses its average pixel width.

GIF – Graphics Interchange Format

Definitely not for printing, GIFs are best used for online purposes. Its number of colors used can be reduced to 256 and most creative artists utilize the format for its animation support. Akin to PNG, this format supports transparency on the main image’s background. However, it would bear a lower resolution and quality.

PSD – Adobe Photoshop File

One of the most widely recognized photo manipulation software, Adobe Photoshop’s PSD is utilized from small scale editing to large scale. Majority of Dubai website design teams utilize its innovative technology to truly manipulate a photo differing it from the original. It goes for creating masks, layers, texts, image formats, filters, transparency and so much more. It is not commonly uploaded for viewing rather it is used straightforwardly for editing.

Additional Information:

When it comes to image resolution, there are two things that you have to keep in mind.

HI RES – With 300 dpi (dots per inch) this is basically used for magazine and high quality prints. (i.e. 5x7 photo: 5” x 300 = 1,500 pixels wide)

LO RES – With 75 dpi (dots per inch), such resolution can only be used for online or screen display, never for printing.