A banner advertising car accessory provider read a tagline ‘I may not be able to repair your brakes, but I can make your horn louder’ with a animated robot promoting it, the hidden humor, and the fun factor will definitely attract millions of people to it, making it unavoidable to read. That’s the power of humor in web designing; it easily catches the millions of glimpses just as easy as pie. Humor is certainly the funny part of any web design, and if you achieve it in your design it will become a positive factor to elicit maximum reach amongst people.
Laughter is undoubtedly the most influencing factor in our lives, and being the part of humor it becomes the most effective mode of communication, rather than serious speeches and conversations. Something which is funny, humorous or amusing automatically influences more on our brain than something which is not fun to read or to see. Humor lets us easily connect with people, and it becomes very easy to penetrate your thoughts in their mind when you have a humor as a tool to portray things on the canvas.
Pinch of sense of humor:
Not everybody can be a stand-up comedian, but everyone has pinch of humor with them, and if you thing you don’t have a sense of humor it can be developed with the time. For designers, it is always a challenge to produce something which is catchy, trendy and fresh. Adding a hint of humor that’s exactly what you need here, it gives you attractive and moreover the stuff which can easily steal the glimpses.
It’s not like you will have to master in being funny but whatever you put on your design just try to spice it up with funny approach. Sarcasm, irony, irrelevance can lead to good content to put on your website; you can put funny infographics, pictures to add a fun factor in your designs. Funny content has the ability to connect and engage maximum people with your website which can result as an effective factor in your overall service sales.
Change your type with Audience:
Now, you cannot crack bunch of 60s with the same joke which you used to crack few teenagers. Sense of humor does change with the age, you may not find out same things funny in your elder years which you used to take humorously in your teen age. This can be used as an advantage, first you need to find what’s your target audience is? And you can accordingly work to find a way to create relevant humorous content for you website, it works like an inside joke of some group, which no one could easily understand except the specific group members.
Targeted humor creates significant impact leading to better results, instead of always finding funny and putting it on website can harm your leads so try being simple and sincere often.
Trying to funny is well and good but trying very hard to be one, although it’s not coming as you wanted can also reflect devastating results, and further it makes you look bad. The silence on the people’s faces when a joke goes flat is unbearable, and the same can happen with you if you try putting similar failed attempt of humor on your designs. When you design something just be normal with slight tilted approach towards funny, being natural is the best way to create fun in the content, don’t try to be funny, be natural and if you can’t find anything apt just keep it simple and easy to seize when viewing.
