Category: Education

  • Gestalt Principles in Design

    It seemed there was a lot of chatter surrounding gestalt in design last week. The Nielsen Norman Group put out a series of 3-minute videos regarding Gestalt Principles in UI design (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwR0SZTBMTU). The Interaction Design Foundation also ran a post featuring one of their courses on Gestalt Psychology in design. Many folks following these channels…

  • Color & Contrast

    This post is just a heads up regarding a new resource for the use of color and contrast in design in general, and in user-interface design in particular. Of the many important concerns for which visual designers need to develop a strong understanding, the use of color and contrast might just be one of the…

  • Shape Grading

    Grades are just the worst, wouldn’t you agree? In the realm of design education, it seems to me that grades are generally a poor instrument for providing feedback to the student, or testifying as a record of the learning experience for the transcript. Perhaps the whole enterprise is suspect, although this piece will not address…