Top 10 reasons to have a graphic designer

involved in your next GIS project.

According to some graphic designer.

Users will be able to figure out where to navigate throughout your application easily with a clean design.

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Your applications will match your company branding.9

Don’t have a brand? Graphic Designers can do that too!8

Logo sample from graphicriver.net

Brand Guidelines:Colours: #0f75bd, #9bd147, #fcb040Fonts: Use Comfortaa for headings and Open Sans for body. 

That jumble of information will somehow just look better…7

A different font? Because not every project needs to be in Arial.

6

Snooze-worthy headingOh look, here’s some text here to explain what we are doing. Yawn it’s in Arial, as is everything else.

Explaining what we’re doing here, haven’t we seen this before?

Awesome headingNow that’s more like it! A simple change in font families can really go a long way to make your web application stand out, match your branding and create a fluid user experience.

Gone are the days of using the standard web fonts.

Someone to move it beyond “well at least it’s functional”.

5

“Is this a button I can click?”Designers create user experiences that are easy to follow with feedback.

4

Colours will no longer be of the default eye-sore variety.

3

Because having an ‘artist’ around just makes the workday more interesting.

2

Your application will be taken to the next level with a custom design, giving you a competitive edge and better product for your end users.

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Y.Co and British Music are external examples of great map application design