POV: Sitting down at your kitchen table. Scrambled eggs just sitting to the left of you. Holding your coffee to your lips. Reading your daily dose of the news on you’r iPad. Your article just might be flexing this hard. When I think of blog posts I think newspaper article, but modern.
Anyone else feel like warm and bubbly sensation in there stomach when they see something that resembled old fashion but made Into modern chic. When fall colors like brown, beige, orange, green and muted red come together and mesh Into a colorful experience of beauty.
Be Authentic To A Fault
As for the blog post UI challenge I created for this blog article. I added some basic old fashion B&W vibes. Above I mentioned the beauty of a colorful experience. Obviously, I did not add that experience in my latest UI challenge. What I did do was add the art of simplicity in the design. Tan, white, black, brown, light blue. A sense of effortless and enjoyable morning, reading your daily dose of news at you’r kitchen table, with you’r coffee and scrabbled eggs.
Lets talk Typography
As you all know, typography can make or break your design. Ask anyone in the design industry, One of the most important skills you can learn as a designer is how to choose type. This is because text is one of the primary ways designers can communicate with users.
For this designs type I searched for right type of script I wanted planted over my makeshift blog post #dailyUI. In the end I decided on using Savoye LET font for my title. For the text throughout the design I used Sahitya. I didn’t want to use any typical typography, I wanted to use an out of the box type of font. Something other designers prefer not do. Typography is always something that someone going to have an opinion on, regardless if basic or not.
Many designers, journalist and bloggers in general, struggle with coming up with consent Ideas for my blog posts. On one hand I want to to sound smart and make others perceive me as an intellect. On the other, I want to normalize and create content that other people are thinking, but are too self conscious to admit themselves.
Focus On The Idea — Not Your Writing Ability
Why do you really read your favorite author?
Because of their style? Because of the subject matter? Because they can sling sentences like a badass?
None of the above.
You read your favorite authors because you like their ideas. How they present those ideas (via blogging to YOU) is icing on the cake. That’s right, you don’t like your favorite writers because they’re great at writing… You like them because of how their brains work.
After all, blog posts are just a writer’s way of showing you their souls.
The best authors write about ideas you’ve never/hardly pondered before. They give you a new perspective. They broaden your mind.
