Highlighting is meant to make elements in your design stand out. No more than 10% of a design should be highlighted, it can be distracting. The highlighting techniques should be used sparingly throughout.
- Bold- good to use, it does not add noise to design
- Italics- does not add noise but less detectable and legible
- Underlining- adds noise, use minimally
- Typeface- use uppercase for short word sequences (different fonts are hard to pull of aesthetically)
- Colour- use with other techniques, make sure to use desaturated colours that are very distinct
- Inversing- works with text, adds noise
- Blinking- use for critical information that requires immediate response, turn off blinking shortly after because it is not very legible
Signal-to-noise ratio is the balance of necessary and unnecessary information in a display. The highest possible signal-to-noise ratio (more signal and less noise) is preferred in design. Signal is valuable information and noise is unrelated or irrelevant information. High signal-to-noise ratio will communicate information clearly. To minimize noise one should keep things simple and removing all unnessesary elements (ex. Thick lines, patterns, unnessesary picture)
ABOVE is the example of lower signal-to-noise ratio (noise/pictures are not necessary).
ABOVE is a higher signal-to-noise ratio (very simple and to the point).Layering is the process of organizing information into related groupings in order to manage complexity and reinforce relationships in the information. There are two basic types of layering: two-dimensional and three-dimensional.
ABOVE: Two-Dimensional Layering - Linear
ABOVE: Two-Dimensional Layering - Non Linear - Hierarchical
ABOVE: Two-Dimensional Layering - Non Linear - Parallel
ABOVE: Two-Dimensional Layering - Non Linear - Web
ABOVE: Three-Dimensional Layering - Opaque
ABOVE: Three-Dimensional Layering - Transparent
Great Job!
ReplyDeleteIt looks really good :)