Basic Design Guidelines

Basic Design Guidelines

When talking about intelligent design, we are not talking about the creation of man. No, this is more IMPORTANT! Media creation and product sites.

There are some very basic about Things That design one can learn so can improvise a person's ability to make creative, interesting and intelligent. Some Things Are:

A. Lining It Up

2. Using a variation

3. Giving Breathing Space

4. Using the Grid

5. Golden Section

6. It is lining up

That line up looks good. It is all over the place does not look good. Of course, we must know the rules to know which ones to rest, so that these rules are just guidelines. In general though, the straight lines or smooth attractive. Jagged lines and less likely to be inconsistent draw. A design with many elements and some elements do not line up That can create a nice contrast, but it begins with the line It is a rule that is easy for beginners.

To support the report, let's look at examples of man-made objects. Roads, table, wall, building, container of orange juice. Shape of all objects that are straight or consistent and any deviation from the norm is considered somewhat disgusting. On the road, it is quite important for health. There is a merger of the construction of 60 East (that's how we identify the highway in California) to 215 South, where the turn is initiated in one size and then suddenly veers state of a few degrees more stringent measures for other conditions. Little change in the curvature of the drivers had to adjust to these changes by little, and apparently unexpected, turn the wheel. I say apparently because barriers prevent drivers from seeing the road will turn the whole into it and

there are a few tire marks etched through appropriate construction barrier at the point of curvature changes.

Let us look at Table. The table clearly straight and even better to write, against the wall of a straight line with good and look good, at least for me. Buildings, such as the table is a convenient form for space efficiency, drawing maps, road construction, furniture and room modularity. Of course, a beautiful arch as well, but the curve is often a very even, and more often than not, accompanied by a straight line curve in another dimension.

OK, orange juice - very nice little square box to ship. Long rectangle makes a great canvas for marketing. If a straight line is not straight, but wrinkled or dented, you probably will not buy that carton.

All these are man-made object It uses the benefits of a straight line or curved uniformly. Let us look at nature. The tree is basically a straight line. Trunks of redwood forests all go in one direction with remarkable consistency. (. Direction is up, by the way, unless you are on the opposite side of the Earth, in a case that will go down) Again, these uses for the trees - high competition to get to the sun. Leaves - straight veins to the end - the same idea, get some (light). Curvature of the earth - from the smooth curvature of the ball 8. Something to do with gravity, for life as we know, is quite useful.

OK, OK, but how does this apply to my smart ___________ (fill in the blank - the web site, advertising, package design, solar electric car, hair)?

For your design, your stuff lined up in a straight line. So lining up the image edges are lined with the image edge and line drawings, text by text, and other inline elements with other elements. This is the basic design principles have not, some websites are all over the place with every picture and every text in the direction.

Using a variation

It is lined and has a variety not boring. For example, a long straight road with no turns quite boring. The 58 zigzag across the arid deserts of Southern California, between the mountains, with every few miles turn. 5 runs in a straight line for miles and miles for hour after hour. Which would you rather drive?

Likewise, the website, if everything is lined up on the same line, the page probably looks very boring. You can change it to:

A. Bold Title

2. List item

3. Indented text

All these Things that break up the monotony a straight line and can add rhythm to the design. But if there are too many drop out of line, the design can Junky seek noise That Being difficult to read. Hey, no doubt about it - some people into.

Giving the design elements for Breathing Space

That the line-up event that would not generally look good if they can not breathe. Put the text to the right side of the other elements have to feel cramped. Some sites pack in so much information on one page there was no margin or breathing space between elements. The result is the uncomfortableness and unreadability. Give your images and text margin, frame or room to breathe.

Use the box, Luke

Things that help you line up, use graph paper, Adobe Photoshop Measured grid or draw your own box. In the last design of the grid is usually removed, but is used in the layout for the sure thing lined up properly. Often inexperienced designers intuitively use the box without physically having the box in the design.

Golden Section

There's a thing called the golden section, golden ratio or divine proportion. If you are really into math, you can do a search to learn more. For Those of us not into math, Golden Section is a little more than a third. If you take a picture, it just Happens to look real good if you show a little more than two-thirds of the sky. The same is applicable to various forms of composition. This is the golden section has some links with the basic geometry seems to resonate with the human sense of beauty.

Conclusion

When designing something, remember: This Line-up, but do not be boring. Use the grid to line up thing. Gold parts look good. Peace.