It’s been a little too long since I posted any real beginner content, so here we go. This is a fundamental user experience (UX) skill, and as design trends change, it never hurts to refresh your intuition about fundamentals.
My New Year’s Resolution for 2014 was to get more people started in User Experience (UX) Design. I posted one lesson every day in January, and hundreds of thousands of people came to learn! Below you will find links to all 31 daily lessons.
The last design principle we will learn is about how to add order and meaning to the elements of your design, without adding any more elements. Sounds subtle, but it effects everything you see, every day:
Alignment & Proximity
When you repeat something, as we learned yesterday, you create a pattern. However, certain types of repetition can also create the perception of “shapes”, and that affects where the user’s eyes will go. So today we will learn about:
Line Tension and Edge Tension
One important Visual Design Principle involves the creation of patterns to lead the user’s eyes to important things. And like all good rules, patterns are made to be broken. So today we will learn the visual principle of:
Repetition and Pattern-Breaking
This lesson is the first of 5 visual principles that will help you direct the user’s attention. Some parts of your design are more important than others, but those are not always the things we notice naturally. So we have to help users notice the important stuff. Today we will learn about:
Visual Weight: Contrast, Depth, and Size
My mission this month is to get more designers (or aspiring designers) started in User Experience design. The best place to start any education is at the beginning:
What is UX?
