Benefits of a Good Website Design
- Smooth interactions: Every webpage has smooth interactions with the user, with all buttons and elements responding instantly on tapping/clicking. (We all get extremely irritated with the websites whose buttons, no matter how hard we tap on our phones, just don’t respond)
- Responsive: Functions optimally, smoothly and equally well from all devices – be it a laptop, desktop, smartphone, tablet, or anything else. As per Statista, over 60% of the world’s netizens access Internet from phones.
- Aesthetically pleasing: The clutter-free, beautiful design of a well-designed website is soothing on the eye and keeps the user coming back for more.
- Enormous satisfaction for both user and owner: Well-designed websites mean happier users, which translates to happier, better satisfied website owner(s).
- Improves digital literacy, bridges digital divide: Many elderly people are not tech-savvy. On finding poorly designed websites, their frustration at the non-working buttons makes them believe that their digital skills are not improving, decreasing their confidence. Well-designed websites enhance their confidence by fulfilling needs seamlessly.
- Higher rank in browser results: Better user experiences mean better feedback plus more recommendations. This pushes up your website’s rank in browser search results via Search Engine Optimization (SEO), increases traffic, rate of conversions from visitors/leads to customers.
- Scroll-friendly, paginated lists: Netizens mostly scroll. A good website design implements pagination algorithms for sleek scrolling, as items are commonly rendered in lists, requiring them to be shown few at a time for not taking up unnecessary space.
- Fulfils purpose in 5 seconds or less: We are busy people, quickly deciding if a website solves our purpose or not. A well-designed website solves quickly.
- Impressive digital identity and footprint to the owner: Stellar website stands as an impressive accomplishment in today’s real world.
Benefits of Having a Good Website Design
Website design means creating the workflow of a website, and then accordingly designing its front-end and back-end. Websites constitute >50% of a netizen’s Internet experience, with about 200 million websites active worldwide. As per Statista, an average netizen browses 10-130 websites daily, and even more on holidays and weekends. Website usage increased multifold during the Covid-19 pandemic, when people couldn’t visit stores physically, and purchased from websites. Websites today serve as the primary face of brands, as customers today assess brands online before making a purchase.