We don’t know if you have an idea of website designing or learning the skills of web development, or a business owner who wants to know more about web designing tricks. But, if you are reading it, that’s for sure that you aim to improve the experience of your users. 

With so many options in the market, it’s challenging for any business to attract customers, even if you are selling top-notch quality products/services. 

Bringing the traction from the right set of audience is impossible with a single mind!

The collective efforts of graphic designers, UI/UX designers, developers and marketing minds can help you do it. 

To add visual effect and gist of your brand story, you need unique illustrations, design layout, creative graphics, and everything that can aid in user engagement. You can’t be biased or inclined towards some specific services only. The design elements that you will choose for your website must go well with aesthetics, tone, information and with the components used for other sections of your website. 

Maintaining uniqueness, and flow of the content along with the uniformity throughout the site, is challenging. Let us tell some of the illustration ideas and examples of brands that can inspire you in this journey of web design development. 

Parallax: 

The parallax themes are evergreen. They are the combination of one-page design layout and parallax scrolling. If you haven’t come across any parallax theme by now, you have surely missed a lot. 

Parallax themes are a lot of fun, as viewers love the scroll through them. Unlike the simple animations, the parallax themes show similar effects when the user scrolls downwards or upwards. You can add background images and add 2D scenes or illustrations. Also, you can create the graphic avatar, and take them as a moving element in your theme. Parallax themes give you a lot of opportunities to experiment and make your illustrations alive. 

If you already own a WordPress website, you can explore for the plugins to try some parallax tricks. You can refer to the below-listed websites to improvise the virtual experience of your users: 

    • Extreeme: This website of wood tree felling services is a perfect example of parallax and storytelling with 2-D imagery in the background. 
    • Firewatch: A gaming site that uses parallax and elements of their offered game to engage users on an emotional note. Yeah, the fans of Firewatcher would have loved it. 

Animation: 

From basic animation tricks applied on text and images to motion graphics and 2-D or 3-D animation, you can use either of these to add an optical illusion. 

Here are a few websites that can enlighten your creativity: 

    • 10*17.co: It’s a beautiful combination of parallax design and animation. The website is a portfolio of several artists with an alluring visual representation. 
    • Phlox: You can check for pre-build themes and templates to meet different business requirements. The fully functional WordPress themes are loaded with enticing animation ideas. You can purchase the themes and play with the CSS of your website. 

Minimalism:

The idea of minimalism talks about saying less but in an effective way. The visuals elements, like illustrations and vector graphics, play a crucial role in this segment. It’s not all about black and grey, rather it can be colourful but with fewer variants and bright colours. 

The challenge is, you can’t add a lot of colours, try variants or add components. To walk with the trend of minimalism can lead you to monotone, but you can find it’s utility more for digital products or services. Though the count of themes is not much in comparison to that of other attractive themes, it will need more efforts from the designer’s side. 

Be selective about the vector images, and other media elements you will be choosing for your website. 

Here, are the few sites that you can refer to:

Illustrations & vectors: 

The illustrations and vector graphics help you emotionally connect with your users and visitors. They are easier to use and aids in building your identity. With the tailored illustrations, you can display the content of your website in a more appealing manner. This improves the readability of your website’s content and eases communication of users with your brand. 

For your reference, we are sharing a few websites that you can refer to add flavour to your site:

  • Ouch: From here, you can download vector styles and vector subjects for free. 
  • Design.AI: For all the customizable illustrations, you can download SVG/PNG images and edit them with our graphic maker. 
  • Vox Illustrations: Though it’s not free to use, it’s worth investment. You can check the layout of the website itself, and you will find that illustrations can improvise the look of your site at its best. 

We believe there are a few sites that can help you blend your ideas with creativity.

  • Humaaans: A library to find humans! Yes, the website can help you find the gender-biased as well as non-biased illustrations for your website. By adding this library to your website, you can add humans to bring more humans in. 
  • Beaver: It’s a personal website of John Kettlewell and picturization is good. 

Quality images & banners:

Most of the web development companies have the subscription of Adobe stock to add appealing visuals for the website banners. It will give an editable version of the image, thus giving you more freedom to experiment.

However, if you work as an individual, you can also look for free image sites that can help you create brand value with professionally shot images. You can give loyalty or purchase them if you like. You can freely select the size of the image you want to download. You can refer to: 

    • Pixabay
    • Unsplash 
    • Pixabay 
    • Gratisography 

Sound effects: 

Did you ever come across a situation where you kept clicking on a website’s CTA multiple times, but it wasn’t loading? 

Yes, it often happens. Especially when you are working with a weak internet connection, in such a situation, the sound effects on different actions of the user can be helpful to smoothen the user interaction. With the help of several websites available online, you can download the free audio versions and get them added with the help of developers during web design development. 

Also, you can add a piece of background music to your site, to seize the attention of users. For easy reference, you can navigate to: 

    • Soundsnap
    • Freesound 
    • Zapsplat
    • Audio Micro 

Leveraging all these references, you can add audio-visual effects to your site. For professional assistance for website designing and development, you can write to us at [email protected]; our sales will connect with you at the earliest.