Discussion Post #2

     

This week’s readings really helped put into perspective for me the importance that graphic design has on its viewers and how the visual appeal can have a great impact on how the viewers react to it and the time that is spent on the webpage and/or document. Being able to learn about the different principles of design will greatly affect my preparation for my Multimedia Montage Project by allowing me to apply these different principles in hopes of creating a visually appealing project that will interest my audience and enable them to remain connected and engaged within my design to ultimately enhance the communication, understanding and/or learning that Google products has to offer to the classroom environment. Being that my audience is targeted towards teachers it is important that the workshop that I develop will be pleasing to the eye, engaging for the viewers, and easily accessible for them to navigate and locate the important information that they will need in order to use and implement the Google products effectively throughout their own teaching practices.

     By viewing Margaret’s interview, I was able to learn the basic aspects that I would need to take into consideration when designing my Multimedia Montage Project. It’s important for me to take into consideration what the purpose of my project is, and who the audience is that I am creating my project for. This will help me in focusing the different principles of design towards the viewers, making it clear for them what is important to understand, and ultimately take away from my professional development workshop. When educating teachers about the different functions of Google products, it is important for me to realize how overwhelming this tool can be for teachers to use. Therefore, by making my graphic design as less overwhelming as possible it will help teachers get the most from my workshop and prevent them from being overwhelmed by an overload of information.

   As I was going through the readings I was amazed when learning about the different design sins and why it is important to stray away from committing them. Over the summer I was enrolled in the Intro to Digital Tools course where I was responsible for creating an educational website. Now reading about these sins for multimedia design I wish I would have known about these sins before creating the website. As I was reading through this weeks reading I am pretty sure I have committed almost every single sin throughout the creation of my website. I primarily was more focused on how it looked then the information that was presented or how accessible it was to the users of the website. Now understanding what the principles of design have to do with the viewer’s interpretation of a graphic design and where I went wrong on my previous design projects it will greatly help me in the creation of my Multimedia Montage Project.

References

Hagen, R., & Golombisky, K. (2017). White space is not your enemy (3rd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

mhough1515. (2011, September 18). Video 23 [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrbhxrNlc1U