In digital
marketing of any kind, we have two primary senses of the customer to work with:
visual and, sometimes, aural. Even then, visual content dominates all forms of
digital marketing, which isn’t actually a limitation.
Get the Basics Right First
You will
eventually need to improve on your visual cues to be specifically appealing to
the target audience, but those who are just starting out will need to only
worry about getting the basics right. Some of the most important basics of
aesthetic web design are as follows.
- The theme should match the product/service/message.
- The font should be clean and perfectly legible against the background.
- Images should be of high quality and pixelated.
- The theme and the very design of the site should be dynamic and fit in the window, irrespective of the OS.
The Visual Nature of Human
Beings: It’s an Advantage for the Clever Digital Marketer
Humans make choices based on visual cues all the time because it’s in our
nature to trust visual data. In light of that little piece of scientific
evidence, does it even come as a surprise that the right web theme can be so
powerful in making your marketing campaign successful?
Imagine
visiting the Apple website to check out the latest iPhones and finding that
they have started using Comic Sans as the web font. That would be a jarring and
unexpected experience for obvious reasons. Will it appeal to Apple’s target
audience in any possible way? Not right now, it won’t.
Instead, we
expect the Apple sites to have rich, vivid images, a light background, and
dark, bold fonts as that theme carries the brand’s very message of simplicity,
clean design, and professionalism.
Does Geographical Location
Affect Human Perception of Marketing Content and Web Themes?
It most
certainly does. Our perception of aesthetics and visual appeal is shaped by
certain fundamental human mindsets, but the society we live in also plays a
huge role here. Even in the United States, some states vary quite widely in
terms of what they find appealing on a website, in spite of belonging to the
same target audience group.
For
example, China is one of the biggest markets in the whole world, sometimes even
eclipsing the US in terms of potential and current market value. And, if you
plan to enter the Asian territory, you will need a local partner to help you
devise your China marketing strategy and build a website that
has the right theme as well as all the other visual cues that will appeal to
the local, target audience. There is also the language gap to consider here,
which is a visual cue as well.
If you get
it wrong and the theme of your client’s or your own website doesn’t appeal to
your target audience, it can also bring down the entire marketing campaign.
It’s important to remember that, just like aesthetically suited and
intelligently designed themes appeal to the customers, if the theme is
ill-suited for the product, service, or brand you are promoting, they might
come to dislike it instead.
