Getting Started With Social Media Design

Strong visual content on social media gives people a reason to follow, like, comment, and eventually buy from you. How can you make sure your design attracts the right audience? Let’s take a look…

The digital world is constantly changing. With all the new social media platforms, those that have been around for years are evolving, and new ones are popping up every day.

Whether your business is B2B or B2C, it’s important to have an effective visual strategy on social media. Graphics—such as photos, images and infographics—take up a lot more space than quotes and texts on any social media newsfeed. So how can you leverage graphics to make sure your business stands out online?

Here’s how to improve your social media visual strategy.

Optimize Your Images For Different Platforms

In order to maintain a social media presence, it’s important to post regularly across a variety of platforms. Posts with images get more engagement than links and text, so keeping your visuals looking their best is critical to an effective social media strategy.

For the most part, each platform requires images of different dimensions. To make this easy, apps like Canva and Adobe Stock have a selection of social media templates formatted to the optimum size for each network. And for your own unique designs, it’s easy to create an original template using custom dimensions.

Make Your Branding Cohesive

Consistency is the key ingredient to brand recognition and success. Think Coca Cola’s vibrant red, and Nike’s “Just Do It.” These brands have all mastered consistent branding by using the same font, color or image in all of their designs.

You want to maintain consistency across all design elements and branded materials so that your target audience can clearly recognize who it’s coming from. Whatever graphics you create and share should essentially be an extension of the same brand they see on your website. Be sure to incorporate your brand’s colors and fonts into your designs and avoid anything content that doesn’t accurately reflect your brand.

Create Valuable Content

The key to successful social media marketing is value and variety. You want to post content that is both valuable to your audience, as well as easy for them to share with their friends. There are many different types of content that can be shared, so don’t restrict yourself to one or two templates and make sure everything you post adds value to your site and for users. You want more valuable content to gain wider reach across social media platforms, resulting in more potential traffic to your website!

Consider posting the following:

  • Industry tips
  • Event Posts
  • Infographics

Create Consistency

Using a consistent template for graphics is important, especially if you’re a brand that’s trying to create an image across all of your social media platforms. Because social gives designers a much smaller canvas to work with, overcrowding can happen fast. You want to avoid overcrowding because it hinders user experience and can make it difficult to get your message across. You can avoid this by:

  • Using large illustrations 
  • Limiting typeface to 2 fonts 
  • Sticking with 2-3 colors 
  • Utilizing white space to contrast the main bold, colorful element

More from Onimod Global 

It’s important to stay on top of your digital marketing strategy so you can stay ahead of the curve.

At Onimod Global, we offer high-end design and branding for your business. We know how to take your brand from good to great! We can help you create an amazing visual identity and marketing materials that will help you stand out from the crowd and make sure you’re seen by your target audience.

Whether you’re a small business or global enterprise, we’ll work with you to make sure your brand represents who you are as a company and where you want to go next. Contact us today to get started.