CMPT 165 Chapter 6: UNIT 6.docx

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Computing Science
• Course: CMPT 165
• Professor: Stephen Makonin

Document Summary

4 principles of design: proximity, alignment, repetition, contrast, the whole point of your design = to make it easy for viewers to get the info they want, proximity, stated concisely, you should group related items together . E. g. same font, rule, bullet, color in the presentation: unifies your presentation so it all looks like part of the same creation, looks consistent, contrast, different looking items, should be ovious. Type face, color, background, border: reader should be able to tell at a glance what parts of the page serve the same urpose. Minimize text: create obvious areas of the page for main parts the user may be looking for. Page title, menu: follow conventions so users can use what they know about the rest of the web when scanning our website, make links clear. Use link text that can stand alone if someone reads only the text. Link text should describe the destination of the link: avoid rollovers.