Visual Composition and Layouts

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Megan Young

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00. Course Overview

00. Course Overview.mp4

01:17

01. Understanding Design Layout Elements

00. Using Shape and Line to Guide a User.mp4

06:53

01. Using Shape to Guide a User.mp4

05:30

02. How Color Impacts Layout.mp4

10:19

03. Text and Typography in Layouts.mp4

05:48

04. The Positive Effect of Negative Space.mp4

03:26

02. Creating Visual Interest through Contrast, Balance, and Scale in Design

00. The Power of Contrast.mp4

06:38

01. Understanding Visual Tension.mp4

12:32

02. Using Scale to Create Visual Contrast.mp4

05:00

03. Between the Lines - the Importance of Proportion in Design

00. Proportion and Scale.mp4

09:34

01. The Rule of Thirds.mp4

02:28

02. Framing, Symmetry & Asymmetry in Layout.mp4

04:03

03. The Visual Power of the Golden Section - Golden Ratio.mp4

10:40

04. Creating Visual Cadence and Consistency with Grids

00. Understanding Grid Systems.mp4

04:40

01. Creating Grids in Different Programs.mp4

12:52

02. The Single Grid.mp4

01:47

03. Multi-Column Grids.mp4

01:57

04. Modular - Baseline Grids.mp4

02:30

05. Complex Grids and Pre-built Frameworks.mp4

02:55

06. Working with Data Tables.mp4

02:13

Description

Designers of all types; web, print and UX struggle with layout and composition at some point. Learn to create consistency and solid visual interest across varying mediums.

What You'll Learn?

Designers of all types; web, print and ux struggle with layout and composition at some point. By gaining a greater understanding of underlying principles of layout and composition, designers can create consistency, organization and visual interest across many different formats.

For decades, classically trained designers have put to use sets of guidelines to bring consistency and visual interest to their work. It helps take some of the uncertainty out of a new project or can help maintain a complete design system for larger, ongoing projects with many moving parts. In this course, I’ll go over helpful design concepts to improve visual consistency and vernacular when it comes to composition and layout.

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Megan Young is a freelance designer and front-end developer in beautiful southern Oregon. After graduating from Oregon State University, Megan began her career in design working primarily in print advertising for small agencies, before making her way into the world of front-end design and development. Megan has worked in the design industry for over 10 years and has spent the last 11 years specializing in e-commerce and front-end development. When Megan isn't making courses for Pluralsight, you'll find her painting in her studio, or exploring the outdoors.

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Pluralsight, LLC is an American privately held online education company that offers a variety of video training courses for software developers, IT administrators, and creative professionals through its website. Founded in 2004 by Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown, Fritz Onion, and Bill Williams, the company has its headquarters in Farmington, Utah. As of July 2018, it uses more than 1,400 subject-matter experts as authors, and offers more than 7,000 courses in its catalog. Since first moving its courses online in 2007, the company has expanded, developing a full enterprise platform, and adding skills assessment modules.