week 6 – Visual Hierarchy

Mandatory Midterm Meeting:

Please set up a mid-term meeting with me. This is to check in about how you are doing so far with html and css. Below are my times to meet. You can either set up a 30 minute slot or just 5 minutes if you are feeling comfortable with the material so far.

You may also be receiving an email to set up a meeting if I am your mentor. If I am your mentor, we can set up one meeting and cover both the class requirement and discuss mentoring issues like registration and “superpowers”, etc..

My times:
Monday: 3:30-5:30pm
Tuesday and Thursday
: 12pm-1:00pm and 3:00pm-4:30pm 

CSS Review:

w3 schools: css_positioning tutorial

background-size

display: block, inline, none, inline-block, flex, grid

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Visual Hierarchy Primer:

Difference: where the eye is drawn
Repetition: where the eye sees pattern and context

color, typography, imagery, layout

Zipcar

 

Grid System :

proportion, alignment, balance
Use grid paper for your sketches
Golden Ratio Calculator(width is 1.62%) :  total length a + b is to the length of the longer segment a as the length of a is to the length of the shorter segment b

GoldenRatio

golden-ratio
Rule of Thirds

Understanding-the-Rule-of-Thirds-Why-it-works-2

Layout examples:

1-column
2-column
3-column

Texture and Imagery:

Optional Reading of Visual Hierarchy:
design-principles-dominance-focal-points-hierarchy

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Project #2:  Recipe Project 15%

Build a one-page, responsive site for a recipe of your choice.  In class, we will discuss visual hierarchy, responsive design, typography and layout of different semantic areas. Your grade in this assignment will be based on your careful handling of design, code and content.

Use the responsive Starter Template  to make your recipe responsive to different device sizes.

Chunk Recipe into Visual Hierarchy
-information architecture

Student Work:

Previous Recipes projects -Spring 17

Previous Recipes projects -Spring 18

Previous Recipes projects -Fall 18

 

CSS GRID Overview