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I liked this article the best. It discuses flow within web designs and it covers all the basis for smooth flow for people that are trying to create their own web page. It covers what design flow is and gives an image example of how flow flows within a graphic design. The author states that it is important to create an entry point, "something that stands out from everything else so that most people look at it first". The author also gives advice on controling flow within a design by using arrows, people or faces that look in a certain direction, and perspective. Using space to control flow is something that I found interesting the author states that "varying the space between a series of elements can be used to create rhythm and motion".

I found this website to be very helpful when it came to discussing flow and how to achieve that. Besides talking about using visual cues to guide the readers eyes, using space to control flow, and creating harmony using flow, it also gives examples of various websites that have demonstrated good flow of design.

Control the way your eyes moves through a design by starting off with an object that will catch the viewers attention. How to control the flow oif your design by using visual cues to guide the eyes in that direction. Creating space to control flow and also creating harmony using flow.

This page goes into detail about designing for your audience. This articles focus is on marketing yourself but the principles could be applied to anything. It goes into a little more detail then the book does, it lists each step for designing for your target audience then follows with a short explanation.

D#1, HW#13 I really enjoyed this website for a couple different reasons. First of all, the design process is similar to that in the book, but yet it has a different approach because it is for an architectural piece, instead of a web site or banner for example. I also enjoyed it because it is not only a list of the concepts for the designer process, but it is also the steps that this particular architectural design teams uses and wants to share with their customers. This shows those customers that they have a structured plan and as a customer you can know where you are in the time line of your design and build process. Although the design process is not exactly the same as the book, it uses the same concepts from beginning with a blank page and sketching out ideas, to ending with details helping to make the project personal to the audience.

This website begins with a description of the steps in the design process. It covers all of the ones that were also in our textbook such as analyzing audience, determining purpose of message, choosing the right format and layout. There were only four principles covered in this website which were those of balance, emphasis, rhythm which we can consider as flow, and unity which we can consider to be alignment. -What i liked about this website is that it offered explanations about the elements of design such as lines, shapes, and colors. I liked that it gave us the table on the "Psychology of color". It will be very useful especially when we think about the objective and audience of the message.

This website provided useful tips about the elements of design such as color, lines, and shapes that will be helpful when beginning to design. It will also help when considering who your target audience is and what the objective is!

 Although visually pretty dry, has a pretty comprehensive treatment of design basics.

This site specifically relates to graphic design, but still demonstrates design basics. It looks at such things as target audiences and knowing the message you want to send.

This site demonstrates the process of design basics. It specifically refers to graphic design, and shows the importance of knowing your target audience and the message you want to send.

This web page discusses the graphic design process, a concept discussed on pages 14 and 15 of Lisa Graham's Basics of Design Layout & Typography for Beginners: Second Edition.

This website explains the many routes that repetition can take in design. There are so many ways that a designer can place repetition but the overall concept is to make it in a way that it will look organized and strong. This will appeal to the audience and make it so they will continue to read it.

Here is an article about repetition in web design. This article utilizes screenshots of various web pages and analyzes how repetition was used and what effects it has on the overall feel of each page.

Repetition focuses on how elements of a design are used more than once throughout a design in varying ways. By using repetition a design becomes far more unified. This site contains 4 examples of sites that use repetition.

D#1 HW# 13 This website discusses how to best consider who the audience is for a design piece. The information is easy to read and is written rather informally, much as one would talk. The information is broken down into understandable pieces and shows real world examples.

This website states the different audiences for specific interest or group of people. Chapter 1 says: "the more you know about your audience, the better equipped you are to attract their attention..."

This website will help many of us with project 2. There are great tip on alignment, which is very important in a web page layout.

This website gives some good information on different types of alignment and how it can be used. It compares the importance of alignment in the real world and how it can be used in design. This website also demonstrates the importance of a clean cut design in order to be less distracting.

This is my favorite becaue it is a teaching site. It has a wonderful way of explaining the different desing elements. There are tutorials and various design strategies to use to get a very creative piece of work.

This was my favorite of the different sites that I found on the topic of repetition. I thought that this site very closely followed what the Basic's of Design taught on the subject. The site gave a background of what repetition is and why it is important. It also gave great examples of different forms of repetition such as; repetition of a image/icon, border, or decoration. It really helped me understand why repetition is such a key component in design!

I like this article because it gives visual examples of repetition used in books, movies, and ads. 

This website has good examples of repetition and they explain it better when having an image. They have good images and good explanation.

This website focuses more on building a design for a successful website, but it's another example of using the same strategic steps in chapter one of "Basic of Design". I especially am drawn to the second step of this website "Identify your audience". Nowadays new technology being introduced to a variety of generations can be somewhat tricky. The fact that they mentioned "technical competency" as a consideration, gives a better understanding of who you will be dealing with and what levels of technology to consider.   

While I was reading the book I wanted to learn more about the gestalt law of perception. I decided to search for it and this is one of the sites that I came upon. The term "gestalt" is kind of the psychological term to describe tools like figure, proximity, closure, continuation, and similarity to bring unity (repetition) to design. It is kind of a neat article about how we can figure out how to make great designs by finding out how we perceive things. I think this concept can be used to my advantage when designing for particular audiences

Good article on controlling where you want your viewer to look by emphasing objects and the different ways to accomplish.

this page gives a lot of information on differetn aspects of using emphasis dominance subordination contrast color/value size shape placement isolation proportion

This site went into great detail. Like the book, the site described that the bigger something is, the more important it must be. It also makes an argument for the center being the most important of placing. But could that really be true if something bigger and more noticable was off center?

This book offers some good information on how balance is used and the importance of a balanced design. An imbalanced design can be hard for a reader to understand and creates negative feelings in the audience.

Goes in depth about balance and gives great examples

I really liked this page, like the last one I posted for contrast this website goes into detail about each kind of balance and gives a picture example of each. It makes it really easy to understand seeing a web page picture or ad, which is what we mostly work with so it makes it easier to understand by showing pictures we relate to.

Here is another article about balance in web design! This article is more focused on designing for your audience. It defines the types of balance as: horizontal, vertical, radial, symmetrical and asymmetrical. Each type of balance has examples from the web accompanied by a short description of how balance is achieved in each unique way. The article goes into the properties of balance as well, and has examples from the web to help define them.

This website discusses the format and purpose of a formal report. The different kinds of professionals that use this report need to know who the intended readers are.

This website contained a lot of information that just gave an overview on the basics of formal reports. It also explained how formal reports differ from an informal way of reporting information. It also split a formal report into 3 sections that I did not see in the other website I found. In this one it states that there is front matter, main text, and back matter. Each of these contains different sections within as well. Very helpful for when we have to work on Project #3!

I like this website because it gives you good explanation on different things you need in a good report. It talks about the front matter like front cover. tittle page, contents page and summary. Also about the main text like introduction, discussion, conlcusion. Back matter is also important with the appendices and glossary.

My favorite of my choices for the week. This is a great step by step guide with examples and reinforcement of the weekly chapter in the text. The writer definitely knows how to teach the audience the how to of alignment.

example of good layout alignment, use of gridlines.

An awesome website which goes into great depth about the importance of having a concept and how to create your concept based on your audience.

Should be visually appealing and set up a mood. The design should make you smile or craving the new item on Starbucks' menu.

Good usage of layout and placement of visual elements on this website. It's catchy for their audience because of their design and color.

This website has all the information about creating a great website. It goes through each step with detail and an example. It states that first a designer should use an effective marketing model in order to get attention from the audience, then one should play with colors for their website. Once one plays with the colors and main idea, then one can focus on balance. It was very informative.