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Designing for the screen
There are plenty of books and commentaries on the subject of design for the web and design for interactive media. It sure is crucial that the concept of interactivity is thought of as a differentiator in designing for the computer screen rather than paper, but what about those basic things like getting things to look good in the space. What about 'balance', 'harmony', 'proportion'. We need to consider some of these fundemental layout design concepts. Forget all that for a moment: Let's forget about interactivity, structure, usability and other such important issues relating to delivery of content on a computer screen and consider the blank space, the rectangular space. Take a blank piece of paper and pretend that you need to arrange a heading, a logo, some text and a couple of graphics in that space. Where do you start?Posted on 22 Jan 2003 around 8pm • Tagged with: Design | Permanent link to this article