As a web designer, it is important to keep up with the latest trends that rule the web designing market. One of the latest trends that are fast catching up with the web designers is the use of flat design when designing websites for clients. You may not realize it but web designing gurus are claiming this trend to last longer than you might expect and is essentially a web design fad that is likely to rule over all the future web design styles. To put it simply, a flat design is nothing but a design that includes elements in a way that keeps everything to the minimum. Essentially, it is very clean and steers clear of loud colours, designs, edges and the likes. It focuses more on 2D illustrations and is the design of choice of several ace web designers specializing in web design. Given below are some excellent benefits that you can reap when working with a flat design for your web designing endeavor.

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Visitors to your website will make a pretty quick decisions regarding how they feel about the aesthetics of your home page. In fact, it’s usually your best shot to make a good impression on a first time visitor. If that visitor deems that you haven’t taken the time to come up with an attractive and functional layout, then they aren’t likely to stick around for your content.

The idea is that once someone has their eyes on your page, they should be immediately drawn in and excited about seeing more of what your site has to offer.

While that alone isn’t enough to win them over, it might be enough to get them to spend some time getting to know your site and browsing through your content, which can eventually lead to sales, faithful readers, subscribers and ad-click conversions.

So we need to ask the question: What should a website’s look and feel do for a visitor, and what kind of reaction or thought response are we looking for?

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The user interface or UI, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the machine which aids the operator in making operational decisions.

Whether you’re creating a desktop, mobile or web applications you need at some point to design the UI to attract users more. If you are out of ideas or working on a limited budget you can always use a ready made UI kit for your project. There’s a lot of free UI kits out there designed and shared by awesome designers, Here’s a list of 35+ free UI kits for your next project.

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Today we are excited to release a new freebie resource. A free Orange Blog Template. We are releasing this free resource in a fully layered PSD file. This resource is offered kindly and exclusively on ahmadhania.com by our friend Scott Rollo. Download, full preview and more information after the jump.

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Today we are excited to release a new freebie resource. A professional and corporate website template. We are releasing this free resource in a fully layered PSD file. This stylish resource is offered kindly and exclusively on ahmadhania.com by our friend Michael John Burns. Download, full preview and more information after the jump.

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