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
