Overview of Design Principles for the Web Developer

In today’s industry, you either see technological professionals occupying very specific niches within a company or ones that are forced to wear many different hats.

In the next couple of entries here at Taming the Wild Wild Web, we’ll be focusing on design inspiration for developers who typically only concern themselves with back-end production.

While it may be the case that you might not ever have to fill the role as the principle designer on a project, there are times when knowing about design rules and heuristics can help make your job of constructing and displaying data for page views and CMS modules a little bit easier and lot more worthwhile.

Skip ahead to basic design principles that developers should know, inspirational typography, behavior-level resources.