You asked for it, now you’ve got it. Go through this list of UX Hacks with any website or software and by the end you’ll have a pretty fantastic, elegant and intuitive application.

      Visual Design

1. Be consistent. Pick a design style and stick with it. Every page should be a minor variation on a theme.
2. Never use more than 3 colors on your website. One neutral (gray, pale blue, pale yellow), one accent (any bright color) and one bold (white, black). Do the same for your living room.
3. Use less colors if you use more images in your web design. It will make the images pop.
4. Don’t use flashing anything.
5. Don’t use Flash.
6. Don’t use dark backgrounds for text.
7. All websites must be responsive.
8. If you make everything big, bold and loud, then nothing is big, bold or loud. (Same for making everything small.)
9. Use more white space – it will make everything easier to read and less intimidating.
10. Text should be #000, #333 or #666. Anything else is too light to read.
11. Headers should be graduated in size, with H1 the largest size and H6 the smallest
12. Use images. Nobody likes to see a whole screen full of text.
13. Use at most 2 font types. Helvetica should be one of them.
14. Underlines are only for links. Book titles should be italicized.
15. Don’t use splash pages.
16. Make your pages scanable by using heading, subheadings and spaces between blocks of text.
17. Use images with people in your website. They’re friendlier and more compelling than those generic,  stock-art photos.
18. Use pictures of yourself doing something spontaneous and fun. Headshots are canned and look it.
19. Identify the section at the top of the screen. E.g. Contact Us
20. Don’t center align all your text.
21. Line height should be 1.5 for all paragraphs
22. Leave 2 lines before headers and 1.5 after