GCD 60804 Design Principles

Week 1 / Exercise 1- Contrast & Gestalt Designs

a) Introduction

Design principles are fundamental pieces of advice for you to make easy-to-use, pleasurable designs. 

Contrast occurs when two elements on a page are different.

Gestalt Principles are principles/laws of human perception that describe how humans group similar elements, recognize patterns and simplify complex images when we perceive objects.

b) Visual research

Gestalt

Contrast

c) Idea exploration 

Gestalt

Contrast

d) feedback from lecturer

e) final design outcome (pictures must neatly cropped and must not be shadowy/blur)

Gestalt

Contrast

f) brief reflection for the week

I had learn about design principle of contrast and gestalt and apply it in the exercise miss gave. I had think of a lot of idea to apply about and i chose this as my idea.