How To Design a Good Looking Website

Track: 
Design and UX
Experience: 
Beginner

What is good design? What is good web? What works? How do I do it? In this session we run through the basics and our most valuable tricks of the trade. Stefan and Mattias from the Swedish web agency Happiness are educated in design at Stockholm University and after more than ten years of hard slavelike labor in cyber dungeons they have developed a set of best practices and methods to make a website look tasty and beautiful.

Topics we will talk about include user interface, structuring information, types of navigation, typography, aestetics, the golden ratio, text, images, the feeling, good web and lots more.

Intended audience: 

Designers, themers and sitebuilders with interest in tasty design

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
What is a user interface?
Question 2: 
What factors make a user interface easy to use?
Question 3: 
What kinds of models for structuring information are there?
Question 4: 
What kinds of naviagation models are there?
Question 5: 
How do I make my design look tasty?
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