Unit 2 reading assignment
Chap 3,4,5
Chapter 3 Billboard Design
One thing I think is rather interesting is the idea of how
we seem to think that reading a page from left to right is instinctual.
However, if we go to a different country we find the opposite is true in Japan
or in a Hebrew nation. Design has to have the idea of the end user in mind.
However, something that has really shocked me is the idea of how easily we
assimilate icons and buttons into our visual library. We all know what the
facebook symbol looks like and that we click on that to share the page we are
on, or to direct us to their facebook page. The video icons work well also to
let us know that the page is able to be viewed as a video.
Things that are important to design work is the usage of
hierarchies and how we attract a person’s eye. Is it by placement, the size of
items, bold text.
As a graphic designer I have had clients who want everything
big because to them everything is big and important, their email address, their
number, and their name, but it makes everything on the page big and bold and
leaves no room for hierarchy.
Chapter 4
Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral
What is important to click, what is clickable and what
number is a good amount of links to different pages? Having a logical idea of
what should be clicked is the key to having a functioning website.
Chap5
Words
I know I tend to be long winded, dribbling on and on about
matters that resemble the real world… oh where was I.
Minimalistic words in an overabundant world.
Trying to cut down the clutter in sentences is the key to a
well designed web page and design.
People tend to scan and get tired of large sentences. It’s better to
have a clean, straight to the point paragraph that explains exactly what the
user is looking for.
now for examples:
Hierichay?
Too wordy of a billboard
what am I looking at?
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