7900 shaares
161 private links
161 private links
A website that embraces Brutalist Web Design is raw in its focus on content, and prioritization of the website visitor.
A website is about giving visitors content to enjoy and ways to interact with you.
Guidelines:
- Content is readable on all reasonable screens and devices.
- Only hyperlinks and buttons respond to clicks.
- Hyperlinks are underlined and buttons look like buttons.
- The back button works as expected.
- View content by scrolling.
- Decoration when needed and no unrelated content.
- Performance is a feature.
The only limitation of brutalist web design is that it is designed for content and not interactions. So this design method does not fit dashboards of real-time data for example. Am I missing something here?
I appreciate the guidelines that can be reused on every usable and accessible website or applications.
A quickstart tip:
Start with left-aligned black text on a white background, and to apply styling only to solve a specific problem
and more tips:
- Understand the semantic meaning of HTML elements.
- Learn about typography.
- Try designing for a small screen by default.
- Learn from designers about their choices and why they made them.
- When in doubt, do what Tron does: fight for the users.