One of my clients asked me to remove the white space in Call to Action area from his home page. I tried to recognise him that the importance of white space in designing and they are not a waste of valuable screen estate. Do you also believe he was right ?. No! Designing the white spaces have a major role. I am listing down few advantages of white space.
* Create Balance: Only a little or no spaces between the elements or blocks they would look close together and will create confusion. Imagine if you are reading a page and all image and texts are close together you wouldn’t read the same. Also, white space tells us about the relationship between the elements.
* Helps to highlight Call to Action: A better idea to make something stand out to increase the size of the elements as bigger. Also, you have to make sure that spacing on inside and outside the element should be more and effective.
* Acts as a Separator: Only a little or no spaces between the elements or blocks would look close together, if you are giving an effective space between the blocks they will act as a separator between them. it’s more effective than the border, background, colours etc…
* Direct User’s eye to a section: Good spacing between blocks or elements helps us to invite users attention to the target portion of the page.
There are many more importance & advantages for white space in the design. They would help us to create good designs and they are not a waste of valuable screen estate. here is one example.
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