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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)

About the Reviewers

Eddy Borja has witnessed the evolution of websites from their static Web 1.0 beginnings to the modern designs that we have now, throughout his life. His first exposure to web design and development began during his teenage years, and he has been involved in the creation of web and mobile apps ever since. He has been a consultant for many startups and a co-founder of a software development shop that builds mobile apps for its clients.

Pedro Piñera Buendia is an Electronics and Telecommunication engineer from Spain. He started working as a mobile developer in 2010, and since then, he has been involved in developing applications that are related to health and entertainment. He is currently working as an iOS developer for Redbooth, a platform to help companies manage their projects (through tasks, notes, conversations, and so on).

Emrullah Lüleci is an entrepreneur, a software engineer, and a UX designer. He has been developing cloud-based Android and web applications. He believes in the power of open source. Thus, he owns several open source projects and contributes to many others. Even though his background is based on programming, he is passionate about designing and creating unique interfaces, which are mainly flat. He is also a member of several communities and delivers speeches about mobile app designs and their development. Emrullah is the founder of CengaLabs, which focuses on developing mobile applications and sharing all the new tools that are created for the projects in open source.