Lessons
Why Design Matters
05:50 2Design Vs. Aesthetic
06:27 3Impact Of Design
07:01 4The Design Process: Understand Your Audience
09:17 5The Design Process: Understand Your Content
05:21 6Design Principle: Alignment, Grids, And Spacing
05:47 7Design Principles: Contrast
02:55 8Design Principles: Repetition
03:20Design Principle: Hierarchy & Proximity
05:37 10Principle Scale And Balance
02:48 11Design Principles: Typography
04:29 12Design Principles: White Space
01:11 13Design Principles: Color
06:09 14Design Principles: Graphics, Icons, And Photos
02:51 15Design Principles: Layouts And Focal Points
01:53 16Design Principles: Color-Blind Accessibility In Design
01:41Lesson Info
Design Principles: White Space
White space. I talk a lot about white space, and maybe you've been in a meeting with a designer or a colleague and you're talking about white space and things like that. And sometimes I think the terminology just gets thrown around as kind of a, I don't know, fancy way to get your point across or something like that or push through your idea. But white space really creates a balanced feeling. Again, a lot of this is just how it feels. So in addition to learning about how to think like a designer, you have to learn how to kind of feel things out like a designer, and the best way to do that is see these examples so that then you can be spotting these out in real life and kind of building up your design muscle, if that makes sense. So white space creates this balanced feeling and makes something a lot easier to visually scan. So white space really helps give things the room they need, like we said, to breathe. We don't feel like we're walking into that person's living room and the couch i...
s gonna suffocate us. We want to make things feel less claustrophobic.
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