Onsharp is always looking for great information to share with our followers. “Web Design Trends for 2010” is one of the more interesting and well done presentations I’ve seen all year. In the presentation, Tijs Vrolix does a wonderful job describing five “Don’ts” for web design this year. With permission, I am sharing those “Don’ts” with you today: 

1. Forget about Smiling Business People

We’ve all seen them. From financial websites to consulting firms, so just say no. 

2. Puzzles 

We get it. The “missing piece to the puzzle”. 

3. Globes

A globe is meant to depict a “worldliness” and describe geographic availability. Can’t it be done another way? 

4. Gears

Yes. Onsharp is guilty of using gears. The major problem: in the real world, they wouldn’t actually function. 

5. Light bulbs

Representing ideas and innovation with a light bulb is a little… unimaginative. 

So maybe our additional comments to Tijs’s five “don’ts” are a little harsh, but there is one running theme throughout those five “don’ts”— Lack of originality. Your site should grab peoples’ attentions and be unique. Admit it. You’ve seen those five images on nearly every business site you’ve visited. 

Tijs suggests: Simplicity, invisible complexity, Big (text, headers, footers, call to action), arty, and the bigger picture. 

Onsharp’s design services can help you avoid the “don’ts” to produce a well designed and highly functioning site to enable your business to reach your 2010 goals. 

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Click here for Tijs’s Presentation