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Creating Flat Design Websites

By : António Pratas
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Creating Flat Design Websites

By: António Pratas

Overview of this book

<p>Flat design is a simple yet visually appealing and increasingly popular style, particularly good for people just starting to develop their own websites. This book helps you to create a simple and good looking product in the flat design style.</p> <p>Creating Flat Design Websites will cover the origins of flat design, its principles as a visual style, and how to start designing right away, always making sure that the interface designed doesn't suffer from usability problems. Learn to design and develop your flat website with external frameworks to save time and money in your project. The book also provides you with tips to avoid the usability mistakes that commonly accompany this style due to its simple look and elements, as well as how to start developing the look of your website in HTML and CSS. Finally, you will learn how you can create your own Flat UI kit to suit your needs.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, we covered the basic definition of web usability and how important it is, especially in flat design, to make sure that you create great and functional interfaces. We saw how usability can be achieved with small changes, remembering that the focus should be on making the interface as easy as possible for the user. We also covered web usability in web forms, one of the elements that usually has more usability problems in flat, and how to avoid them as well as convert the form to the flat style. We also went through flat types and learned how to test readability in several cases.