Graph paper, quad-ruled paper, graphing paper or millimeter paper is writing paper that is printed with fine lines making up a regular grid. The lines are often used as guides for plotting mathematical functions or experimental data and drawing diagrams. It is commonly found in mathematics and engineering education settings and in laboratory notebooks.
2008-05-08

Intelligent Design - Basic Design Guidelines  

When talking about intelligent design, we are not talking about the creation of man. Nope, this is important! The creation of media and website products.

There are some very basic things about the design can be learned, that a significantly improve the ability to secure attractive and intelligent creations. Some of these things are:

1. Lining things Up

2. Use Variation

3. Giving breathing Room

4. By Grid

5. The Golden Section

6. Lining Things Up

Things this line up nicely. Things all over the place is not beautiful. Of course, one must know rules to know what to break, so that these rules are only guidelines. In general, however, straight or smooth lines are attractive. Jagged lines are inconsistent and less likely to be attractive. A design with many elements feed and a few elements that are not able to create beautiful contrast, but starting with things that line up is just a nice rule for beginners.

To support these statements, Let's take a closer look examples of man-made objects . Roads, tables, walls, buildings, orange juice containers. The forms of all these objects are straight or consistent and any deviation from this standard is regarded as repugnant to say the least. On roads, the matter is very important for the health. It is a reunification under construction from the east 60 (that is, as we identify highways in California) to the 215 South, where the turn begins with a Grae fact, then suddenly turn a few degrees more tightly to another Gr ae circumstance. This slight change in the curvature results in a driver, in order for this change with a light, and apparently unexpected turn of the wheel. I say apparently because road barriers prevent a driver to see the whole turn goes into it, and there is a lot of tire marks etched the construction barrier right at the point of change in curvature.

Lets look at desks. Of course, straight and tables are also good for the letter, against walls just fit very well, at least for me. Buildings, such as desks are convenient forms for space efficiency, map drawing, the creation of roads, furniture and space modularity. Sure, curved buildings are also beautiful, but the curves are often very even, and more often than not, the curve is accompanied by a straight line in another dimension.

OK, orange juice - very nice to ship little square boxes. Long rectangles make a beautiful canvas for marketing. If the straight lines are not straight, but crumpled or dented, chances are you do not buy that carton.

All them are man-made objects in usability benefit from gleichmaig straight or curved lines. Let us take a look at nature. Trees are essentially straight lines. The tribes a Redwood forest, all in one direction with remarkable consistency. (This direction is, incidentally, unless you are on the opposite side of the planet, in this case it would be below.) Again, this is the user-friendliness for the tree - a competition in the height around the sun. Leaves - especially the arteries to help - same idea, a few (light). Curvature of the Earth - smoother than the curvature of an 8-ball. Something to do with the gravity of the existence, as we know it is quite useful.

OK, OK, but how does it work for my intelligent ___________ (fill in the blank - Web Site, AD, package design, solar energy electric Car, hair)?

For your designs, line up your stuff in straight lines. Set up the images so that image edges are lined with screen edges and lines, text by text and other elements inline with other elements. This is a fundamental principle still some Web sites are all over the place with every section of the image and text in all way.

Using Variation

Things this line and have no variation are boring. For example, long straight roads without curves are quite boring. The 58 zigzags on the arid Southern California desert, between mountains, with every few miles a turning point. The 5 goes in a straight line for miles after miles after hour after hour. Which would you prefer?

Likewise, with Web sites, when everything lines on the same line, which is probably very boring. You can do it with:

1. Bold Titles

2. Lists of items

3. Indented text

All these things break the monotony of straight lines and can add rhythm to a design. But when it comes to dismantle much of the lines, the design can search Junky The noise is hard to read. Hey, no doubt - some people in that.

Giving design elements Breathe

Even Room to fix things that generally do not look good if they do not breathe. Putting text to the right against the edge of another element has a claustrophobic feeling. Some sites pack in as much information on a page that there are no borders or breathing space between the elements. The result is in uncomfortableness and unreadability. Send your pictures and text margins, frame or a room to breathe.

Use Grid, Luke

To help you online, use graph paper, the Adobe Photoshop grid or draw a grid itself. In the final design of this grid is usually removed, but in layout to make sure things line up, fine. Experienced designers often intuitively with a grid without physically with a grid in design.

The Golden Section

There is a thing called the golden section, the golden ratio or the divine proportion. If you're really in math, you can enter a keyword, to learn more. For those of us not so in mathematics, the Golden Section "is a little more than a third. If you have a picture, it only happens to real nice if you show a little more than two-thirds sky. The same applies to many forms of composition. This golden section has some basic terms of geometry, seems resonance with a human sense of things beauty.

Conclusion

When's design, remember: line, but not boring. Use grids to line things. The golden section looks nice. Peace.

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