Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Form revision

When viewing my design for the application and comparing it to the links we read on form design I notice great similarity. The main keys in the readings were to have contrast, balance, proportion, rhythm, harmony, movement and unity. I added contrast to make the form a little more interesting, what I did was add boxes with a drop shadow to create a 3D effect. It also breaks up the space more to guide the eye. I believe my application is pretty balanced as well. There are areas that are more on the lighter side and other portions that have a little more weight to them. Proportion is handled efficiently as well I believe, all of the type is a pretty standard font size of 10,12 and 14. Rhythm is achieved by keeping the same attributes on every page, the same type faces were used and the elements of lines and boxes and that also ties harmony into the pieces as well. When you efficiently group elements and keep a nice flow going in my opinion it almost makes rhythm and harmony one. Movement works pretty well I would say, it reads as any typical application would and it is pretty conservative. I didn't play with great scale, because some might be offended by it and not find the same beauty in it that I would. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I like it, but I would have liked to stress the boundaries a little more and play more with cropping and clipping around the edges.

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