Having a graphic designer on your GIS project can take it to the next level. Here's a few quirky reasons why.

1. Top 10 reasons to have a
graphic designer involved
in your next GIS project.
According to some graphic designer.

2. 10
Users will be able to figure out where
to navigate throughout your
application easily with a clean design.

3. Your applications will match your
company branding.

4. Don‟t have a brand? Graphic Designers
can do that too!
Brand Guidelines:
Colours: #0f75bd, #9bd147, #fcb040
Fonts: Use Comfortaa for headings
and Open Sans for body.
Logo sample from graphicriver.net

5. That jumble of information will
somehow just look better…

6. A different font? Because not every
project needs to be in Arial.
Snooze-worthy heading
Oh look, here’s some text here to explain
what we are doing. Yawn it’s in Arial, as is
everything else.
Explaining what we’re doing here, haven’t
we seen this before?
Awesome heading
Now that’s more like it! A simple change in
font families can really go a long way to make
your web application stand out, match your
branding and create a fluid user experience.
Gone are the days of using the standard web
fonts.

7. Someone to move it beyond
“well at least it‟s functional”.

8. “Is this a button I can click?”
Designers create user experiences that
are easy to follow with feedback.

9. Colours will no longer be of the
default eye-sore variety.

10. Because having an „artist‟ around just
makes the workday more interesting.

11. Your application will be taken to the
next level with a custom design, giving
you a competitive edge and better
product for your end users.
Y.Co and British Music are external examples of great map application design