9 Tips To Make Your Work Popular
by Runyu Xia
When you upload your project to Behance or your personal website, how to make your work popular? Showing a project is like selling a product, stunning packaging is essential. To package your project, long image is visually more coherent and narrative, which is easier for the audience to understand the content of work quickly if the project is like a story since people love stories. If you have completed outstanding work, it’s better to package it and bring it to new heights, right? Here are 3 principles including 9 tips to achieve this.
Principle 1: Attraction
Tip 1: An appealing header
The beginning of the story, which is the header, is obviously very crucial for being attractive so that the audience will be kept and pay attention to how the story develops. Showcasing the characteristics and tone of the whole project by placing a full-screen image as a subtle background.
Tip 2: Make it dynamic
Inserting gifs or automatic-play loop videos, which is simpler for the audience to watch since they don’t need to click at all, to showcase the work in a more vivid way instead of only displaying still images.
Principle 2: Variety
Tip 3: Break the layout
It’s a huge help to break the “standard” layout and making it exciting by using diverse shapes, including parallelograms, triangles, ellipses and organic shapes, with corresponding colors in the background.
Tip 4: Switch the side of the content
As a storyteller, we are responsible for leading the audience’s “reading line”, making it a “zig-zag” instead of just a straight line to keep the reading experience interesting and let the audience stay longer on a page. The content doesn’t have to be on the same side. Enriching the layout and varying the audience’s “reading line” by switching the side of the content.
Tip 5: Beyond the boundary
The content in different sections is usually set in blocks or separated by boundaries. It makes the design organized and neat, but it looks stiff and discontinuous. A helpful tip is making the content beyond the boundary to weaken the rigid of border and strengthen the connection between sections.
Tip 6: Enhance the hierarchy
Separating the content into layers or adding relevant elements to enhance the hierarchy and enrich the visuals.
Principle 3: Details
Tip 7: Depth of field
Blurring the objects closer to the camera to create an immersive experience for the audience.
Tip 8: Blurry drop shadow
Blurry drop shadow can build a sense of space for the content. The more blurry the object is, the farther away it is from the background. It also makes the design clean and elegant.
Tip 9: Adding thickness or pages
Adding thickness can make the design doesn’t look too thin or flat, and adding pages can create an illusion of plenty of content even though there is only one page in the image.
Conclusion
It’s vital to improve the quality of work, which is one of designer’s core competitiveness, while learning these tips. When you see and learn more about other’s great work, your sense of design will be accumulated.
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✏️ About the Author
Runyu Xia is a designer, experienced in motion graphics, graphic design, animation, web design, UI/UX and video editing.
Website: www.runyuxia.com
Behance: behance.net/runyuxia
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/runyuxia
