The design of content affects users' ability and willingness to interact with it. If a lesson appears disorganized, a searcher may immediately dismiss it without realizing it may actually be a great lesson. In this lesson, we'll look briefly at design frameworks, principles, and quality standards. These can help your content stand out and give you additional criteria for evaluating other content.
Standard K of the Instructional Materials Rubric asks if, "The visual design of materials is clean and coherent, lending itself to ease of learning." Individual criteria supporting this standard include:
The composition of your instructional materials can make it easier or harder for users to navigate, find information, and flow through the lesson. Composition is the way your content is arranged. The Goodwill Community Foundation's GCFLearnFree says, "It doesn't matter if you're working with text, images, or elements in a graphic; without a thoughtful, well-composed layout, your work would basically fall apart."
Learn more about composition in the following video.
To learn more about composition and how to apply the principles of proximity, white space, alignment, contrast, and repetition to your work, read the Layout and Composition lesson. For more, review the full Beginning Graphic Design course from the Goodwill Community Foundation.
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