How to get ideas to design a website?

Design burnout is real. There will be times when you find yourself out of ideas when starting out a website design project.

Sometimes, what you need to do is to take a step back and approach your design in a new way.

There are a number of reasons why you might feel uninspired on a project.

1. Vague descriptions from your client
2. Working on the same design for too long
3. Working on the same type of industry

Whatever the reason might be, this is normal. It's good to break out of the same process and get into a new one.

Getting ideas to start on a website design project

In this article, we are going to look into some steps to boost your creativity.

Design something from a different niche

When you are first starting out as a web designer, it would be normal if you are comfortable with designing websites for a certain type of industry to help build up your portfolio.

But you will find yourself jaded when you keep working on the same type of websites over and over again. When this happens, you will run out of creative ideas on how to approach the design for a website.

What's the best thing to do? Try getting a new project outside of this particular industry.

Design on just one element

Let's face it. We as designers tend to design many things at one time because we try to get as many things done at the same time.

The problem is we think that this is the most efficient thing to do because we seem to know what needs to be done. In reality, it doesn't help at all. We've seen many designers go through this and sometimes it is best to take a step back and take a look at your design process.

Or sometimes, we throw everything away and just zero in on one design element that we feel needs the most uplifting.

For example, you can scrutinize your popup design. Think of the various ways to improve the design. Once you start to pinpoint the areas that needs adjustments, it will feel more like a breeze to design the other web design elements.

Prepare a step-by-step process

How do we come up with a process?

What we did was to document every web design project that we have done and define the steps taken to achieve our clients' objectives.

We sieve out all the unnecessary steps and create a template in our Notion workspace.

This template has been passed to many of our junior designers to ensure that we are able to achieve what is needed for any web design projects.

Check the latest design trends

Having the knowledge of the latest design trends can be beneficial for you. The only problem is that it is ever changing and sometimes it gets hard for us to keep track. But overall, this can be the starting point for you to try something different for your next web design project.

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Read an article

There are many articles and tutorials regarding website design. Do your research and read as much as possible especially when you are starting out. There will be times when you are stuck at a problem or a design blockade at any point of time.

Be a sponge.

Start a new hobby

We don't get it when designers say that their hobby is to create new designs day in day out. From our personal experience, sitting down in front of a computer for 8 hours straight is a recipe for disaster.

Pick up a new hobby. Start reading. Or start fishing. Anything new that is unrelated to your line of work might help declutter your thoughts and gain new perspective on design.

Conclusion

It is always best to zone out for a while. Never let yourself be constrained in a small box. You might never know when that new creative spark allows you to create something amazing.