Honestly Listen To Music While Designing… It Helps!
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Admin in the Articles, General Updates section
When designing, you have to have a plan of structural elements, a color scheme and the skills obviously needed to do the project. But when dealing with clients these don’t just come from thin air. The client brief is the main priority when designing and aiming to get the design as the client wants it is vital. But to get some inspiration to begin planning the design and throughout designing the actual design can be nothing but a little bit of music.
When I begin designing I listen to some music for about half an hour and then start work. It usually helps me focus and set the tone for the actual design itself. I know this may sound a bit weird, but trying to tie up the genre of music with type of design is quite good to do also. For example, if your designing a web 2.0, clean, smooth design you should try listening to some r&b or some soul music for a laid back feel. If your designing a rather different site such as a grunge gaming website then you’d be best listening to some Foo Fighters (awesome band by the way) or some kind of rock music which has some loud bass, just to tie in with that type of design.
It really helps me personally so maybe you should try also. I have been doing this for about a year now after reading an article on a forum. You always hear about people talking about listening to music when designing, but not telling you what type of music so I decided to try and co-operate the ‘genre’ of music with the type of design and its helped greatly. I myself love listening to music everyday, if its on the bus, walking about and when i’m designing so I listen to music a fair bit each day. So maybe if your line of inspiration is different from mine you should try mine out and let me know how your getting on.
Thats all I really have at the moment, not a very long article but just a little helpful thought you should keep in mind. If you would like to keep up with all my posts why not get them delivered to your email? Just simply enter your email address to the email feed on the left hand side and follow the simple instructions.
Kindest regards,
James