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Gives good description and examples of the concept of Visual Hierarchy in Web Design and discusses its importance. Also has an exercise to do to test visual hierarchy when you come across a website.

Informative post about how the human brain registers hierarchy naturally and techniques that can be used to achieve effective visual hierarchy in web desgin. The site offers examples of each method: size, color, contrast, alignment, repetition, proximity, density and whitespace, and finally style and texture. I particularly like this quote: "Good visual hierarchy isn't about wild and crazy graphics or the newest photoshop filters, it's about organizing information in a way that's usable, accessible, and logical to the everyday site visitor."

Here is an article on visual hierarchy in reference to web design. Along with the list of ways visual hierarchies can be formed visual examples are given as well. This article even goes in the psychology behind visual hierarchy and why its necessary for designers when creating.

I found this site to be the most useful in a completely different way than the book. It explains that flow is a psychological element and there are many ways that it can be applied and used for better designs. Some of the examples that it gives are: allow for discovery, using efficiency, proving immediate feedback, and setting clear goals and purposes.

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

A decent summary of design elements. No examples, but there is a nice section on the psychology of colors in advertising/design

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.

In contrast to belief that internet usage may lead to isolation and depression, this article explores the positive aspects of internet social support groups. These small communities help reach people who otherwise might not attend services to alleviate their issues.