WEB DESIGN Good web design keeps users engaged and guides them effortlessly through the site. Visitors should enjoy the experience and easily find what they’re looking for—without getting lost in rabbit holes or frustrated by sluggish graphics and overly long animations.
In today’s connected world, whether we’re on a smartphone, tablet, or laptop, we live and work through the web. That’s why responsive design is critical: a website must scale seamlessly across all platforms while maintaining a clear, intuitive user interface.
The 19th-century architect Louis Sullivan coined the design axiom “form follows function.” He was referring to skyscrapers, but the same principle applies to web design—another kind of architecture.
I found Sullivan’s words especially relevant when designing the website for Catherine Eaton Skinner, a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans painting, encaustic, sculpture, printmaking, and photography. The design reflects her aesthetic, rooted in the repetition of sacred forms. Through striking banners and a clean grid system, the site mirrors both the artistic and spiritual dissolution of the self into the whole. The result expresses the profound elegance of her work.
“A designer knows they have achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry