First UI Dashboard
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What do you mean by "more interest"?
Thank youVery soothing to the eye to look at, keep at it
[DOUBLEPOST=1561211588][/DOUBLEPOST]This is the completed version, if you have any tips/tricks on what I can do better or how to improve, please drop them below
Charnary Jeboh Updated opinions would be appreciated please!
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I'm glad you said it's your first because it looks like crap. Everything is big and bold, colours are off and spacing is off. The only thing I can find that looks half decent is the gradient, which isn't even part of the design as far as I can tell.
You have too many colors going on at once. Stick with a 3-5 color palette. You have a good idea of going but it's too basic. Spice up the white background a bit. I'm not going to tell you specifically what but use your imagination. Get creative with it. Everyone loves some creativity.
Colors for palette
- Page Background
- Text Color
- Primary/Attention Color
- Secondary Color*
- Off-set color (this needs to be out there but also fitting with the other colors. Enough for the user to be interested but not confused)*
*: items can be omitted if you're going for less than 5 color palette.
use https://coolors.co/ if you can't figure out a palette for your own. Generate a couple and find a 5 set that interests you the most
Charnary said that the numbers need to be more of a priority than the text above it. I'd probably swap the two font sizes that way the numbers grab the viewer's attention more than the text.What do you mean by "more interest"?
(Samuel this is not directed at you. Just using your suggestion as proof of point)
Imagine me giving you a detailed list of stuff you should focus on in this format. Then I tell you to focus on the more important things.
You'll be confused about what's more important than the other suggestions. This is the problem with having everything bold. There is a time and place for bolding. Bolding is great for empowering content and grabbing that extra second of the viewer's attention but never should it be used on all the content.
For web designs, you want to give it your all. Dig down into your creative side and pull out some interesting things. Even if you can't code it, add it. Figure out how to code it later. Don't diminish your style over a small-term issue.
Practice
Yeah, looks a bit meh now I look at it.
It's the background and no need to be so harsh, I'm sure when you started out as a System Admin you were awful. I understand that dashboard looks bad, but I have recently created a proper UI for a company off my own back to get some practice.
Great, practice. I think you're missing something HUGE and that's the fact that you need to get in the mindset of someone who would be interested in purchasing a design from you. What do they want, how do they want it, what purpose does it serve?
Judging from your design, you were kind of just thinking of, and throwing things in to fill up space.
No dashboard is really going to have a commissions accepted, satisfied customers, total earned, etc. nor is it really effective to have the account overview on the front like this. I'm not saying this is a result of a bad design, I'm saying you just have no clue what you're making and thus have no ideas for what to put on there resulting in some pretty arbitrary design choices.
First thing is first, just go ahead and take a look on... Google for some clean dashboard designs, and take note of what they do well and note the premise of the purpose they serve.
Here is one I found.
This here dashboard is probably something that would be used by a stock market investor. Now we think of the things a stock market investor would want to see, and put those things on the dashboard. Just off the top of my head, here's what we've got.
- Watchlist stock prices.
- Invested stock prices.
- Probably passing graphs?
- Information on selected stock prices.
- Search for other companies.
- Money tab which would include our profits within a certain timeframe, etc.
- Account overview.
- Sign out button.
Thank you, great advice and as I said it was my first one so wasn't to sure what to put on it. This should help me get betterGreat, practice. I think you're missing something HUGE and that's the fact that you need to get in the mindset of someone who would be interested in purchasing a design from you. What do they want, how do they want it, what purpose does it serve?
Judging from your design, you were kind of just thinking of, and throwing things in to fill up space.
No dashboard is really going to have a commissions accepted, satisfied customers, total earned, etc. nor is it really effective to have the account overview on the front like this. I'm not saying this is a result of a bad design, I'm saying you just have no clue what you're making and thus have no ideas for what to put on there resulting in some pretty arbitrary design choices.
First thing is first, just go ahead and take a look on... Google for some clean dashboard designs, and take note of what they do well and note the premise of the purpose they serve.
Here is one I found.
This here dashboard is probably something that would be used by a stock market investor. Now we think of the things a stock market investor would want to see, and put those things on the dashboard. Just off the top of my head, here's what we've got.
We think, what would go on the sidebar? What other uses could this application or website serve?
- Watchlist stock prices.
- Invested stock prices.
- Probably passing graphs?
- Information on selected stock prices.
- Search for other companies.
- Money tab which would include our profits within a certain timeframe, etc.
- Account overview.
- Sign out button.
Thank you
It's OK, I wouldn't go as far as buying it.
UI design is a very iterative process, which is why god invented Adobe XD for prototyping. There's a lack of consistency in the design, colour choice isn't great and it seems like you're going for a material design in some parts but flat in others.
Your layout is alright, I think you need to have consistent spacing between elements rather than just moving it about and calling it a day.
Just my two cents.
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