5 Common Beginner Web Design Mistakes To Avoid

Let's go over some easily avoidable web design mistakes.

These are a dead giveaway that you are a novice as I only ever see these mistakes made by people who are new to the space.

About a month ago, we challenged our Instagram audience to design one homepage hero section per day for 30 days. The twist: They had to use the Unsplash Figma plugin to generate a random image to design around.

With hundreds of participants and thousands of designs with the hashtag #30DaysOfWebDesign, we can definitely say that the challenge has been a great success.

Though, as I was browsing the challenge hashtag to admire the work, I noticed some novice web design mistakes that I thought would be helpful to go over in a video.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
1:00 Huge nav link text
2:25 Minimalism taken too far
3:35 Poor hierarchy
4:50 Image-text contrast
5:55 Poor alignment & balance
8:10 Poor hierarchy

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Thanks for watching the video!

[dimitrisantrizos]

Maybe you could make an “Intermediate” Web Design Mistakes to Avoid?

Would be helpful for us people who aren’t web design noobies, but also not pros yet.

[MuhammadYamman]

Lesson of the video: Never neglect the importance of design basics whether it’s website, branding or something else.

[iakanshasoni]

In the beginning of my design career I have also struggled with these mistakes.
But now after practising a lot, I have got better in design (In comparison to my old designs)
Thanks for posting this video!😇

[martinruegenberg]

Hey Ran, I just came here to say neat camera edit at 9:25. These are the subtle details that make a difference haha... Cheers!

[deboraharnold]

I always learn so much from your videos

[ashleyhoward]

The first thing is so true! I was doing it in Figma. Things looked massive when I went into 100% zoom 😂

[leily]

Thanks! This is very useful information.🙂

[henrythomas]

I am learning so much from watching your videos. Thank you so much for sharing this amazing source of information. This one is quite helpful.

[mohammadeskini]

please post more videos like this one. it really helps.

[DinoEstoque]

A week ago, I began my web design journey. I was a content writer and copywriter for a long time, and I was given the opportunity to learn web design using Divi.

Although you talk more about Webflow, I find your content very informative and straight to the point. It is a valuable resource for web design newbies like myself. Keep it coming Ran. Thanks for awesome, easy-to-digest content!

[christianocana]

thank for this video this will help alot cause i am just a beginner in ui designs

[sahidulislamjony]

Awesome video about Hierarchy mistakes

[sarobidyramiandrisoa]

For the image-text contrast, is it good enough to add outline on the text so that it will be readable anyway?

[redsharkdigital]

This video was super informative! Thanks for the tips! We will keep these tips in mind.

[moisestatis]

Your videos are great, very helpful. Do you offer consulting for reviewing webpage? I tried to get in touch using the linkedin link but it did not work.

[hajji]

I'm learning web designer, 😭 sucks design tools Adobe XD, figma. But I can done design work by coding. Should I go back end or keep front end work?!

[jtg]

Hey Ran. I have no experience with web design, other than wix and such. I really like web flow and would intend to use it. But, where would you suggest going to learn the fundamentals of web design and psychology of it?

[ennatim]

Ran you are one of the people i am starting into design wotld more power 🍁

[jbrown]

As always I learned something good from his videos but I feel that the video would have been a bit more helpful if he would have said some suggestions on what he would do to fix it forAs always I learned something good from his videos but I feel that the video would have been a bit more helpful if he would have said some suggestions on what he would do to fix it . Even just 1 or 2 suggestions would give me a better idea of what he would be looking for in the finished product

[JoseMartinez-hkqs]

Ran pronounces "Huge" like Trump. hahaha love you Ran! Great video <3