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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 process of creating your own Flat UI pack, from element design to development, and also elaborated on how to create documentation and comment your work for future use. We created a flat design button in CSS to exemplify a process and create one asset of the pack.

This is also the last chapter, and with it, we come to the end of our book. Here, we covered all the phases of a web design project in flat design, focusing on the specifics of the flat style and how it's so easy and impactful to create projects. From planning, sketching, and designing, up until development, you're now ready to create your own page, and you just need to go ahead and put this in practice, because the more you practice, the better you'll become.