As you might have witnessed, the website design has been revolutionized in the recent years in a number of ways, and using cards is one of those trends. You can see cards on almost every website these days. Take, for instance, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and many magazines where the use of the cards is inevitable.

But, is it really the trend that is inspiring the card-based website design?

Definitely not. Trends come for a reason; the use of cards is not an exception either. Using cards has numerous advantages to the UX design. Let’s see how they benefit the design.

Responsiveness

The first and foremost highlight of the decade is the globalization of the smartphones. Even a kid of six or seven years of age owns a smartphone nowadays. This has added pressure to all the websites to vie against one another in gaining the attention from people. This is what has given rise to the term-responsiveness.

Cards help arrange the contents in a discrete format, that allows them to break away from one another individually, without breaking the original layout, whenever the websites are viewed in small screen-devices, such as smartphones and tablets.  

Focus on one thing at a time

As the contents are compartmentalized into cards distinctively, your audience can focus one thing at a time when they view your website. This prevents their attention from wandering and jumping onto the other topics, and therefore, decreases their confusions.

Sense of control to the audience

Humans are born with the will to control anything that they can. Same is the case with your audiences; all they want is the sense of control, and this is what cards provide them.

Each card can display anything short ranging from a title, short descriptions, images, videos, to links. It gives them a short display of the content and gives them the decision-making power of whether or not to click to read further. This makes you easier to advertise content without making them realize that you are in control.

Saving space

For the websites/ blogs with the large number of items to display, this format helps save space. It also minimizes the need for infinite scrolling which might bore the audience to a large extent.

User Experience

 It optimizes the user experience because it doesn’t only make your website look eye-catching, but it also increases the user comfort. It is also a perfect fit for the minimalism trend that is running in the market, lately. The card-layouts are easy to understand and responsive.

With all that has been said, making cards while making a website is a tedious task. Even when using the website builders, integrating a number of holders, texts, links, images and videos and repeating the whole process time and again is tedious and time-consuming.

Well, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel all over again; Contentder is here with your one-stop solution: the ready-made, easy-to-add cards. These cards have a wide range of customization options ranging from the colors, background, border, and images to adding videos. You can also rearrange the text with respect to the image in all ways possible.

Moreover, once you prepare a card, perfect fit for your web page, you can easily create another similar one with the “Duplicate” button. You can also add links to the contents. Adding to that, using a card is fascinatingly easy, all that you have to do is drag it from the library and drop it on your desired location.

So, go trendy or be a minimalist, experiment with trends with confidence because Contentder has got your back. Beyond the Cards, it has much more to offer to you.

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