Comments on: Principles-of-Design-White-1280px https://3764s18.tracigardner.com/infographicinspiration-put-crap-in-your-document-design/principles-of-design-white-1280px/ English 3764 @ Virginia Tech, Spring 2018 Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:48:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 By: Ben White https://3764s18.tracigardner.com/infographicinspiration-put-crap-in-your-document-design/principles-of-design-white-1280px/#comment-1465 Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:48:44 +0000 https://3764s18.tracigardner.com/wp-content/uploads/Principles-of-Design-White-1280px-1.jpg#comment-1465 I agree, this infographic provides a great understanding of how to format/design papers and posters. Personally, I think contrast is extremely important. While I was at IBM, I had to go over user-experience guidelines to ensure that it allowed for ADA use. Contrast is extremely important for those with limited sight; it assists with differentiating items on a website or window. Repetition was also important because so that the user always feels like their using an IBM product. Most products offered, use similar or the same styling. Many companies do this so that their brand becomes ingrained in the user.

]]> By: Katie Cox https://3764s18.tracigardner.com/infographicinspiration-put-crap-in-your-document-design/principles-of-design-white-1280px/#comment-1463 Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:56:50 +0000 https://3764s18.tracigardner.com/wp-content/uploads/Principles-of-Design-White-1280px-1.jpg#comment-1463 This infographic does a really good job of putting into words exactly what my eyes look for in a document or poster. I think alignment is especially important even though it’s probably the most likely of these to not be followed. I’m definitely the kind of person who says, “Oh, this looks close enough,” but the time and effort that goes into alignment is very important.

In one of my co-ops, we had to do a poster session about our work for the semester. When I was creating my poster, I found that everything just looked kind of off. I shared it with a fellow co-op, and upon moving everything pertaining to one topic and fixing the alignment, it was leagues more visually appealing. Just moving a couple of text boxes a few inches made a world of difference, just like the infographic said it would.

Slightly unrelated, but Lynda. com is a fabulous learning tool. I’ve used in my co-ops to learn many different kinds of software and statistic methods

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