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Antonio Pratas

Creating Flat Design Websites

In DetailFlat design is a simple yet visually appealing and increasingly popular style, particularly good for people just starting to develop their own websites. This book helps you to create a simple and good looking product in the flat design style.
Creating Flat Design Websites will cover the origins of flat design, its principles as a visual style, and how to start designing right away, always making sure that the interface designed doesn't suffer from usability problems. Learn to design and develop your flat website with external frameworks to save time and money in your project. The book also provides you with tips to avoid the usability mistakes that commonly accompany this style due to its simple look and elements, as well as how to start developing the look of your website in HTML and CSS. Finally, you will learn how you can create your own Flat UI kit to suit your needs.
ApproachThis book contains practical, step-by-step tutorials along with plenty of explanation about designing your flat website. Each section is introduced sequentially, building up your web design skills and completing your website.
Who this book is forWhether you are starting on your journey in web development or you are a seasoned developer keen to develop in flat then this book is for you.
166 printed pages
Publication year
2014
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  • Артем Малахивскийhas quotedlast year
    definitely recommend Jakob Nielsen's book, Designing Web Usability, available on Amazon at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Designing-Web-Usability-Practice-Simplicity/dp/156205810X.
  • Артем Малахивскийhas quotedlast year
    he following screenshot shows Flat UI Colors from http://flatuicolors.com:
  • Артем Малахивскийhas quotedlast year
    There are some types of preferred colors to be used in flat though. The website, http://flatuicolors.com, is great to check these quickly as well as use them.

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