Hello my good and faithful weekly readers. This week on the Comm 350 Blog Spot I am going to be talking about something commonly known as C.R.A.P. in the design world. C.R.A.P. stands for contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity. By correctly using these four elements your design can go from good to great or from terrible to fantastic. Knowing these four elements is going to create help me as I work on multiple assignments in class. There are a few group assignments that have multiple people working on individual parts with these elements in mind we will be able to combined all of our individual parts and make them look as if one person created the entire assignment.
Contrast
Makes different things different
Brings out dominate elements
Mutes lesser elements
Creates dynamism
The following picture shows examples of good and bad contrast
Repetition
Repeat design throughout the interface
Consistency
Creates Unity
Brings organization, structure and unity.
Alignment
Creates a visual flow
Visually connects elements
Proximity
Groups related elements
Separates unrelated elements
Watch the following videos for more information about C.R.A.P.
Hello everyone, this week I am going to be starting out by showing you a very useful emerging social media site. The Foursquare app helps you discover new places, with recommendations from the local community. Foursquare has five different sections of things that you can search for on there app. These five things are food, coffee, nightlife, fun and shopping. One of Foursquare's mottos is "Find the best places to eat, drink, shop, or visit in any city in the world. Access over 75 million short tips from local experts." Once you enter your location into the app or site and click the category you are searching for hundreds of things pop up in the order of highest rating to lowest rating.
The following video shows some key features of Foursquare as well as why how it is beneficial to businesses.
The following video is a presentation done by Evan Cohen who was the Chief Operating Officer of Foursquare at the time.
If you would like to use Foursquare Click here to go directly to there site.
InDesign
This week in class we learned a lot about a program called InDesign, this program can be a very useful tool if you learn how to use it and what its capable of. On the InDesign website their motto is "The industry-leading page design and layout toolset lets you work across desktop and mobile devices to create, preflight and publish everything from printed books and brochures to digital magazines, iPad apps, eBooks and interactive online documents."
The following video shows the new features of the 2015 version of InDesign.
Following video shows ten things that beginners want to know when first using InDesign.
If you would like to learn more about Adobe InDesign or would like to download a free trial click here to go directly to their website.
