8 Rules of Clean UI Design
UI/UX design is not a difficult domain to grasp concepts. Typography, color theory, icons, buttons, etc. will take you into another world and as a result, when you’re working on it for the first time, it’s easy to overlook some minor details and get lost in the design process. UI and UX are different terms that might use together but they have a different meanings. UI and UX are closely related to each other to create a great user experience. Since a good UI/UX designer needs to understand the product and must create a user-center design, I have put together 8 principles for UI/UX design, which might improve the efficiency of your design.
Keep it simple
What’s the point of having too many effects and styles, if your aim is to create a clean design? Too many effects, transitions, and colours can mess up your design and you won’t be able to scan your content in the future.
Balance and Alignment
Never forget, everything you are putting on a page has some weight. Weight can be determined by colour, size, or texture. Without moderation, your audience will feel as if their eye is popping out of their page.
White Space
All other design principles are related to what you add to your design. White space or negative space is the only one that is directly responsible for what you do not add. The white space is the same as a blank page around the element in your design.
Be Consistent
Consistent UI means using similar design patterns, identical terminology in prompts, homogeneous menus and screens, and consistent command throughout the interface.
Typography System
Create tidiness and structure with consistent rules for font size. Just like weights, a small difference in size between two types of type may distort contrast and hierarchy. Their rules will quickly blend into each other.
Use the 60–30–10 rule while choosing the colour pallet
Fewer colours are the better approach to make your design stand out. Choose a dominant colour that will occupy 60% of your design, then choose a complementary colour that will occupy 30% of your design, mainly used to design cards, piles, etc, and the remaining 10% for actionable colour, which will be used to create buttons and icons. And stick to those colours throughout the design process.
Make Readable Titles
It is important to have a really strong hierarchy between your elements. This way, you can guide the user’s eye from the most important things to the least important ones.
Hierarchy
Strong visuals hierarchy is a core design principle of a successful user interface. It consists of arranging visual elements in a way that explains the level of importance of each element and guides the user to take the desired actions.
