Bryan Kingston

Week 5 – Pinciples of Website Graphic Design

April 3, 2009 at 8:43 am | Posted in Principles of Graphic Design | Leave a comment
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In your blog you are required to critique, a positive or negative appraisal of a website of your choice, with regards to the four principles of Graphic Design -

• Proximity,
• Alignment,
• Repitition, and
• Contrast.

I have chosen a newspaper site, The Irish Times for this weeks assessment, to discuss the four principles of Graphic Design.  These principles affect how the web page is perceived by the user and i believe this site is excellent in its use of the principles of Graphic Design.

Proximity:
Proximity refers to how closely the elements of a page are grouped. The Irish Times website uses proximity very well, where it is simple and effective with the use of white space. It can be seen by the user that the elements are grouped together as one visual unit.

Alignment:
Alignment used in a webpage refers to that every item on a webpage should have a visual connection with something else on that page. The alignment in The Irish Times Website is clear and straight forward.

Repitition:
Repeating elements of a page provide consistency for the user and makes it easy on the eye when navigating through the website. This is proven by repeating the Navigation Bar and IrishTimes.com logo on the top of the page, when one switches from one page to another. For Example, when i clicked on the Business Section, the same features were repeated.