Fundamentals of Good Design - 1: Basic Rules

As many of us know; rules inherited from graphic design, good web design consists of a few professional sights and terms. At the institute I work, most of my class hours pass by giving students design works and to-dos. Like “œcreate a design layout for x consulting company website” or “Create an iPhone presentation page without using iPhone images but injecting the essence of it’s features visually” etc. After declaring the work, almost all students (and most of the designers) open up Photoshop, and start gazing at the blank screen with blurred and blank eyes, for hours… We might almost call this “Designers’ block“- which I will be talking more about in an another article soon-, but it really isn’t. We can call it “lack of organization“, “not knowing what to do“, or “photoshophobia“ or even “I don’t belong in this world“ issue but it is not “Design...