How to Learn About Web Design: 3 Steps

How to Learn About Web Design: 3 Steps

If you're interested in web design, it helps to start by understanding what it is first. Here are some pointers to guide your learning.

Steps

1. Note what web designs differs from. Web design is not book design, it is not poster design, it is not illustration, and the highest achievements of those disciplines are not what web design aims for. Although websites can be delivery systems for games and videos, and although those delivery systems can be lovely to look at, such sites are exemplars of game design and video storytelling, not of web design.

2. Understand what web design involves. Web design is the creation of digital environments that:

• facilitate and encourage human activity;
• reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and
• change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

3. Know how to get started in web design. If you're wondering whether web design is something you'd like to get involved in, it's a good idea to find out more by checking out existing web design work.

• Visit a local book store and ask to see books in their web design section.
• Borrow books from the library on web design.
• Ask local web designers if you can visit their studios and see what they do for real.