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Website Redesign: The 3 phases You Need to Complete to be Successful
In any marketing sector of a business, the awkward topic of redesigning your site may pop up in conversation. The worries entail deciding whether it’s time for a redesign or if your business needs one at all. Maybe you’re not getting enough leads, maybe it’s outdated and doesn’t match your branding, or maybe it’s generating leads, but not the right leads and not quickly enough. Let’s start with a checklist.
Web Design: Wireframes vs. UI Kits
We're going back to the basics by understanding the difference between wireframes and UI kits. These two tools sound complicated but are simple terms that can amplify your tech outreach and make content decoding meeker. The basics of a user interface can define design workflow and improve mobile applications.
Tool Highlight: HTML Email
An email design systems provides consistency for your users. Designers working with different templates makes it harder for your audience to associate your brand to the email. Using a system ensures every Designer uses the same components, colors, font styles and layout, ensuring consistency and professional looking emails.
Branding: Telling Your Story
Your brand, your story. Without establishing a timeline of events or verbal expressions of how far you and your business have come, are you truly worthy of competing? Stories add meaning and substance as to why your brand is here. Don’t let assumptions undermine your offerings, but adequately engage with your audience and tell your own truth.
Design Trend: Summer Colours by Pantone
Adobe has teamed up with the Pantone Colour Institute to reveal which colours are trending this summer. Although the colour theory will stay, these trends can influence users, designers, and brands.