How to keep your Interface Designs Simple and Effective

Tips on how to design simple and effective website interfaces that minimize cognitive overload for users.

Links

• Keep your link underlines the same color is your link text
• When using an arrow on a link keep the text of the link to a set amount of characters ie: more info, read more

Colours

• Restrict the color scheme to 2 background colors
• Restrict text to 1 color - ensure its supper high contrast with all background colors.

Fonts

• Restrict font families to 1 family
• Restrict font weights to 3 or 4
• Restrict font sizes to 5

Spacing

• Restrict spacing variations to 4 or 5