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Jan 28 2010

Cameron Chapman - Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color

There are few things in design that are more subjective—or more important—than the use of color. A color that can evoke one reaction in one person may evoke the opposite reaction in another, due to

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May 10 2016

Jon Hensley - Improve Your Designs With The Principles Of Closure And Figure-Ground (Part 2)

Have you ever wondered how elements come together to create successful designs? It’s no accident that compelling design just seems to work. What most of these designs have in common is the use of ge

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Mar 29 2014

Steven Bradley - Design Principles: Visual Perception And The Principles Of Gestalt

In 1910, psychologist Max Wertheimer had an insight when he observed a series of lights flashing on and off at a railroad crossing. It was similar to how the lights encircling a movie theater marque

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Sep 22 2014

Steven Bradley - Design Principles: Connecting And Separating Elements Through Contrast And Similarity

Similarity and contrast, connection and separation, grouped and ungrouped are all ways to describe the varying sameness and difference between elements. Based on the information they carry, we’ll wa

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Dec 19 2014

Kent Eisenhuth - A Frank Lloyd Wright Approach To Digital Design

Frank Lloyd Wright was a century ahead of his time. He was a pioneer, an avant-garde architect who broke free of the traditions of his era. His views on materials, form, function, space and environm

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Dec 12 2014

Steven Bradley - Design Principles: Visual Weight And Direction

Every element on a web page exerts a visual force that attracts the eye of the viewer. The greater the force, the more the eye is attracted. These forces also appear to act on other elements, impart

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Apr 29 2015

Steven Bradley - Design Principles: Compositional Flow And Rhythm

When someone lands on a page of your site what do you want that person to do? Where do you want them to look? What information do you want your visitors to notice and in what order? Ideally, you wa

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May 02 2010

Maggie Macnab - Symmetry: A Balancing Act In Two (Or More) Parts

Symmetry is the ordering principle in nature that represents the center of balance between two or more opposing sides. As a fundamental design principle, it permeates everything: from man-made archi

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Jun 29 2015

Steven Bradley - Design Principles: Compositional, Symmetrical And Asymmetrical Balance

A balanced composition feels right. It feels stable and aesthetically pleasing. While some of its elements might be focal points and attract your eye, no one area of the composition draws your eye s

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Nov 14 2016

Rob Reed - Everything You Need To Know About Emoji 🍭

We all recognize emoji. They’ve become the global pop stars of digital communication. But what are they, technically speaking? And what might we learn by taking a closer look at these images, charac

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Jun 05 2012

Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser - Why Subtle Typographic Choices Make All The Difference

A strong understanding of how designers control meaning is essential for anyone interested in graphic design or typography. In a previous article,we discussed how sophisticated and complex visual an

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Feb 27 2015

Steven Bradley - Design Principles: Dominance, Focal Points And Hierarchy

Fundamental design principles part 5: You can’t emphasize everything. In order for some elements in a design to stand out, other elements must fade into the background. Has a client ever asked you

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Jan 25 2017

Nick Babich - The Underestimated Power Of Color In Mobile App Design

Color is arguably the second most important aspect of your app, after functionality. The human to computer interaction is heavily based on interacting with graphical UI elements, and color plays a c

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May 16 2014

Steven Bradley - Design Principles: Space And The Figure-Ground Relationship

If you see graphic design as a process of arranging shapes on a canvas, then you’re only seeing half of what you work with. The negative space of the canvas is just as important as the positive elem

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May 03 2016

Jon Hensley - Improve Your Designs With The Principles Of Similarity And Proximity (Part 1)

The perceptual process enables us to perceive the world through our senses of sight, smell, sound, taste and touch. In particular, our visual system processes vast amounts of information in its envi

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May 23 2016

Jon Hensley - Improve Your Designs With The Principles Of Continuation And Common Fate (Part Three)

Creating an effective web design is like putting a puzzle together, with the various parts coming together to tame the chaos and form a whole, well-organized design. At the foundation of this organi

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