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Topic: Visual Design

You already know that a beautiful visual interface isn't enough to compel users to engage. But what *does* make an effective interface takes a combination of a variety of factors -- from communication and decision-making to execution -- that our experts discuss in these seminars.

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Nathan Curtis

A Tour of Today’s Online Style Guides

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Nathan Curtis

What You’ll Learn

  • Why examples are important and the best places to find inspiration for your style guide
  • How to create style guides even when you don’t have time
  • How to see your style guide with a critical eye for the purpose of fine-tuning
  • How to understand what your organization needs from your style guide
Design Process Design Decisions Design Principles Visual Design Design Systems
November 3, 2015
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Tim Brown

The Transformative Power of Typography and Graphic Design

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Tim Brown

What You’ll Learn

  • How to bake high-level typography and graphic design concepts into our work
  • Why typography can help us understand responsive design and where in history we can find inspiration and guidance
  • Which rules and when using them can prepare web compositions for various scenarios
  • Why it’s important to practice graphic and typographic design
Responsive Web Design CSS3 Scenarios Typography Visual Design
October 27, 2014
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David Rivers

Visual Design for Web Applications

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David Rivers

What You’ll Learn

  • Use key points to use as a checklist or to plan your visual design
  • Incorporate brand into your design
  • Recognize when you should be consistent, and when it’s important to be inconsistent
  • Consider new terms—Stage, interaction planes, and affordances—what they mean and why they’re important
  • Start down in the trenches of your application, rather than the dashboard or home screen
Brand Visual Design Web Applications Interface Design
November 22, 2010
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Patrick Hofmann

Effective Use of Icons & Images

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Patrick Hofmann

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.
Visual Design Interface Design
December 15, 2009
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Patrick Hofmann

Essentials of Effective Visual Design

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Patrick Hofmann

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.
Visual Design
November 21, 2008
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Jared Spool

Strike Up the Brand: How Smart Design Can Strengthen Your Brand

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Jared Spool

What You’ll Learn

  • Recognize the two important outcomes of branding efforts -- affinity and dispositional returns
  • Understand why 'message' branding doesn't strengthen engagement, but 'experience' branding does
  • Understand the important role that user experience research plays in the design process for branding
  • Measure brand engagement to show the effects of a design
Brand Visual Design Strategy
May 1, 2008