I Like Big Buttons and I Cannot Lie

Over at YourTotalSite, I wrote about how nice it is to see big and bold designs. Since there was more thought put into this site than you might guess at first glance, I wanted to take some time and provide some insight into the thought process that led to this “design”.

Simple
I prefer to keep things simple with almost everything, and if I was going to make a personal site, that had to be the driver behind every decision. Everybody talks about two columns this, three columns that, etc. I don’t think it’s possible to get much simpler than one column, so that’s where it started.

Big
Nothing screams usability and simplicity louder than large clickable targets. Fitt’s Law says so. Well, it kind of says something like that. The headlines. The buttons. Commenter’s names. It’s all big. That’s two major decisions. (Via GarrettDimon)