Lesson: Articles on Visual Design - 0 views
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Dominance focuses on having one element as the focal point and others being subordinate. This is often done through scaling and contrasting based on size, color, position, shape, etc.
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Judy Sweetman on 04 Mar 16I have a background in graphic design, and have taken many design courses. It always amazes me how the terms in the elements and principles of design change, depending on who is discussing them. This is the first I've heard of "dominance", as I learned this as "emphasis". Regardless, the elements and principles of design are critically important to all educators, because embedded in the Iowa Core ELA standards is the concept of visually literacy skills. I do include parts learning about the elements and principles of design in several of the online courses I teach.
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the first thing you see is the logo.
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Having a good set of CSS stylesheets
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Even if it's a bad design, at least make it a consistent, bad design.
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Interesting thought! And when a site/lesson/course has a bad design, even if it is consistent, it doesn't appear to be as bad. Here I'm thinking of the courses I've designed and comparing them to what I've learned so far in this course. My designs are poor, but they are consistent! I have a lot of work to do to improve the design of my courses!!
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Design is not just something designers do. Design is marketing. Design is your product and how it works. The more I’ve learned about design, the better results I’ve gotten.
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You’ve experienced this countless times at restaurants. Menus with huge options make it difficult to choose your dinner. If it just offered 2 options, taking a decision would take much less time. This is similar to Paradox of Choice – the more choice you give people, the easier it is to choose nothing.
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According to Krug’s first law of usability, the web-page should be obvious and self-explanatory. When you’re creating a site, your job is to get rid of the question marks — the decisions users need to make consciously, considering pros, cons and alternatives.
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This is something I want to think about with my online courses. I sometimes get questions about things that I think are self-explanatory, but perhaps I've made the students think too hard? This also fits in with Kuhlthau's information-search process (ISP) that I'm learning about, as well as Kwon's critical thinking and library (or in this case, online class) anxiety.
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