Design Principles: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 9, 2009
- CRAP Lesson
- Explore the website examples: Vreele’s Blog, Zimmer Twins, Icon Buffet, Chevrolet.com
- Sketch in your sketchbook examples that demonstrate each principle
- Deconstruct a website – take screenshots of examples of these principles – find examples of the other principles in the Icon Buffet site.
Other design principles to teach:
- White Space theory – the use of space in a layout
- The use of color: demonstrate the way the eye is attracted to saturated colors and to movement.
- Color-blindedness – demonstrate how someone who’s color-blind sees a website. 8% of men are color blind,
- Content and design should match: the images used should represent he text. (This goes along with writing for the web)
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