IVAN SOTO

Welcome to my new blog design. After some revisions and good feedback I designed to build this design and this time, make it fully responsive!

In the last couple of weeks I've been trying to get some inspiration for upcoming web projects I've been working on. Finding a simple and clean way to add tons of information into a Web app is not an easy task, so I've been doing a lot of prototyping and mockups.

I could be writing about thousands of elements but I will try to focus on a few for now: Remove things that we don't use that often. Tables that need to have a lot of information; and the use of icons: when and how.

Removing unnecessary elements

Some sites try to stay clean by removing unnecessary elements, or by fading things that are not that important.

A good example is removing the login box from the design when you are not logged in, something that was really common before (specially in forums) but it became a trend to have a dedicated login page and remove the login box from the menu bar. While this requires an extra click and page load, it gives the login box a proper place to be instead of trying to fit it into the navigation design.

Skype's website has a clean top bar, and pretty much all the stuff you need in the main navigation: Features, Get Skype (download), etc. And for the top bar, it's your account stuff, Buy Credits, Sign In and Join.