Notes Design

Often it is the close attention to small details that makes a design outstanding. During the development of a website, designers tend to quickly forget about small details and focus on major design elements, such as navigation, typography and layout. If done properly, the result is usually a solid, impressive and highly professional design that communicates information. However, it is not memorable. The reason is that such designs often do not have a memorable voice: they may look visually appealing, but they don't provide a vivid anchor for users to remember a website after leaving it.

In this post, we showcase the design of "Back to top" links, a forgotten and rarely used link that helps users jump to the top of a given page. A visitor can achieve this effect by pressing the "Home" button on his or her keyboard; however, not every user is aware of that shortcut, and most probably use the vertical scroll bar in the browser for that purpose. As designers, we can help our users out by adding a stand-alone "top" link to our designs.