This is a quick list of the layout and design elements that need to be tackled during the development process.

I will be making decisions about each of these elements with the following three ideas serving as a foundation: every element of the design should be self explanatory, obvious, and intuitive; always consider the F-Pattern; simplicity is king.

• 404 error page
• Advertising
• Badges, pins, icons, emoticons
• Block quotes
• Color scheme
• Copyright
• Date stamps
• Footer
• Fonts/Typefaces
• Forms
• Images
• Menus and navigation
• Mobile layouts
• Pagination
• Post meta data
• Print layouts
• RSS
• Tag clouds
• Tables
• Textures and backgrounds

I’ll tackle these one at a time, though not necessarily in this order.  I’m drawing inspiration from other sites that I consider well designed and highly usable.  I will post screenshots and links where necessary to credit these sites and designers for their inspiration.

Note: This is the second in a planned series of posts detailing the step by step development of sandbox.kwjr.com.  For all such posts, follow this link.