Expert: Patrick Hofmann

Effective Use of Icons & Images

What You’ll Learn

• Evaluate your user interface and information, with a closer look at the icons and images used to represent information.
• Avoid use of symbols and icons in your interfaces that confuse, offend, or even alienate your audience.
• Better judge the inclusion, exclusion, as well as the combination of words and images in your information.
• Create more effective toolbars, favicons, desktops, menus, and UIs with well-balanced, well-thought-out icons, images, and text.

Essentials of Effective Visual Design

What You’ll Learn

• Use the best information designs to help you scan, read, and absorb information.
• Judge contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity in our designs
• Use the simplest of tweaks, like adjusting the mere text sizes or line weights in your information to dramatically improve your product’s usability
• Ensure the images you use are as effective as the words that go along with them.