Text and Image
Web Developer and Designer
Ways to use Images
- Aid understanding
- Direct Attention
- Communicate Directly
- Create Interest
Point in the Right Drection
Helianthus
annuus
Helianthus annuus, is a large annual forb of the genus Helianthus grown as a crop for its edible oil and edible fruits. This species is also used as bird food, as livestock forage (as a meal or a silage plant), and in some industrial applications.
Helps Understanding
Communicating Directly
Process
- Discovery
- Brainstorming & Sketching
- Drafting
- Feedback and Editing
- Final
Discovery
What is the problem?
What are the restraints?
Make no assumptions!
Brainstorming & Sketching
Everything is on the Table
Come up with as many ideas as possible
Quantity > Quality
Drafting
Take a look at your ideas
Be very critical of what works
Take the very best and refine them
Feedback and Editing
Take a step back to clear your head
Show your work to others
Test how things are working
Go back to the drafting step
Finished?
Sometimes hard to know
- Pay attention to details
- Analyze critically
- Empathize with the audience
- Enjoy Exploration
- Become comfortable with failure and mistakes
- Always know what your goal is
How to have a successful design
- No Clear Purpose
- Not easy to use
- Doesn't connect with audience
- Makes too many assumptions
- Results in negative effects
How to have a
bad design
