Design Principle

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Know

ingDesign

Principles


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Objectives:

1. Identify the design flaws in apublication

2. Suggest ways to improve thedesign

3. Develop the values of positiveinterdependence, groupaccountability andinterpersonal skill


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Plan andDesign!


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Design istheprocess oftaking

responsibility for

the: appearance


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Design refers to

placement and displacementbalance and imbalanceshadow and lightcontrast and unitysubtlety and surprise

embedded in a communication


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Design

attractsattentionand helps

get amessagenoticed

adds valueto amessage



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Six Steps to follow to have asuccessful design:

1. Establish goals and organize

materials before thinking aboutwhat the publication should looklike

2. Choose an appropriate format and

page layout by thinking about theoverall look and feel of thepublication

3. Make appropriate typeface, font

size and spacing decisions


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4. Add and manipulate graphics,remembering that each type ofillustration has its advantages and

disadvantages and that each fontrequires careful placement on thepage

5. Build momentum into the

communication by organizinginformation into chunks, breakinglarge amounts of information intomanageable sections


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6. Refine and fine-tune byremembering that perfect

wholes are the result ofperfect details and thatperfect details are theresult of breaking a project

down into its componentparts and fine-tuning eachpart.


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Basic DesignPrinciples


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Use offonts

Unusualfonts can

help directthe eyetoward the

text, buttoo manydifferentfonts on a

Brown Blu

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Pink YellowRe

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Black


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Use visualcueing

Wheninformation ona page isparticularly

important,cueing itvisually candraw attention

in several ways: use frames

box around the

text


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Usewhite/blan

k spacewell

Do not be

afraid toleave areasin a

documentwith nothingin them at

all; this may


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Create anduse graphics

carefully Use pictures

and designs tofocusattention andconveyinformation,

but too manyor tooelaborate ormerelydecorative


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Avoidcommon textformat errors

grammaticalerrors

spelling errors

exaggeratedindentions

unequalspacing

excessiveunderlinin


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Reference: Technology for Teaching

by Priscilla Norton and Debra

Sprague


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Publication No. Strength Flaw

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