3: What makes good design?

# What makes good design?

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**Part 3**

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# Why even care about design?

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 <img src="img/03/why-design.png" alt="Why care about design?" title="Why care about design?" width="100%">
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# Beauty, stories, and truth

.box-inv-5.sp-after[**Beauty** shapes that form.]

.box-5.medium[There are aesthetic principles we can follow to create beauty—and truth.]

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# Principles of design

.box-inv-5.medium[There are thousands of books and centuries of debate and theory about what makes good design.]

.box-5.medium[The easiest and most memorable distillation of these principles is **CRAP**.]

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# CRAP

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 <img src="img/03/williams-design-book.jpg" alt="Robin Williams's The Non-Designers Design Book" title="Robin Williams's The Non-Designers Design Book" width="65%">
 <figcaption>Buy this book and your life will change forever.</figcaption>
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# Contrast

.box-inv-1.large[If two items are not exactly the same, make them different. Really different.]

.box-1.large[**Don't be a wimp.**]

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# Typographic contrast: Family

.box-1.small[Serif + Sans serif&emsp;&emsp;Script + Serif&emsp;&emsp;Slab + Sans serif&emsp;&emsp;etc.]

<table>
 <tr>
 <td class="cell-left">Serif</td>
 <td class="cell-left" style="font-family: 'EB Garamond'">Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td class="cell-left">Sans serif</td>
 <td class="cell-left" style="font-family: 'Oswald'">Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td class="cell-left">Slab serif</td>
 <td class="cell-left" style="font-family: 'Alfa Slab One'">Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td class="cell-left">Script</td>
 <td class="cell-left" style="font-family: 'Dancing Script'">Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td class="cell-left">Monospaced&emsp;</td>
 <td class="cell-left" style="font-family: 'Inconsolata'">Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow</td>
 </tr>
</table>

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# Typographic constrast: Family

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# Typographic contrast: Weight

.box-1.small[Bold + Regular&emsp;&emsp;Regular + Extra light&emsp;&emsp;Black + Light&emsp;&emsp;etc.]

<table>
 <tr>
 <td class="cell-left">Extra light&emsp;</td>
 <td class="cell-left" style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-weight: 200;">Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow</td>
 </tr>
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 <td class="cell-left">Light</td>
 <td class="cell-left" style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-weight: 300;">Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow</td>
 </tr>
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 <td class="cell-left">Regular</td>
 <td class="cell-left" style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-weight: 400;">Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow</td>
 </tr>
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 <td class="cell-left">Semi bold</td>
 <td class="cell-left" style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-weight: 600;">Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td class="cell-left">Bold&emsp;</td>
 <td class="cell-left" style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-weight: 700;">Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td class="cell-left">Black</td>
 <td class="cell-left" style="font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-weight: 900;">Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow</td>
 </tr>
</table>

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# Typographic constrast: Weight

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# Size contrast

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# Color contrast

.box-1.tiny[[color.adobe.com](https://color.adobe.com)]

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<figure>
 <img src="img/03/triad.png" alt="Triad" title="Triad" width="100%">
 <figcaption>Triad</figcaption>
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<figure>
 <img src="img/03/monochromatic.png" alt="Monochromatic" title="Monochromatic" width="100%">
 <figcaption>Monochromatic</figcaption>
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<figure>
 <img src="img/03/complementary.png" alt="Complementary" title="Complementary" width="100%">
 <figcaption>Complementary</figcaption>
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 <img src="img/03/complementary-split.png" alt="Split complementary" title="Split complementary" width="100%">
 <figcaption>Split complementary</figcaption>
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# Color contrast

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 <img src="img/03/palette-atl-extracted.png" alt="Extracted colors" title="Extracted colors" width="50%">
 <figcaption>Colors extracted from an image at <a href="https://color.adobe.com">color.adobe.com</a></figcaption>
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Photo by [Brad Huchteman](https://unsplash.com/photos/sR1Kz2auNJE) on Unsplash

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# Usability and accessibility

.box-inv-1.medium[Perceptually uniform colors]

.box-1[Values close to each other use similar colors, and values far from each other use different colors]

.box-inv-1.medium[Colorblind-safe colors]

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# Perceptually uniform colors

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 <img src="img/03/palettes-typical.png" alt="Typical palettes" title="Typical palettes" width="100%">
 <figcaption>Traditional palettes vs. viridis</figcaption>
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 <img src="img/03/palettes-deuteranopic.png" alt="Deuteranopic palettes" title="Deuteranopic palettes" width="100%">
 <figcaption>Traditional palettes vs. viridis as seen with deuteranopia</figcaption>
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# Perceptually uniform colors

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<figcaption>Georgia counties filled by area, rainbow palette (NOT GOOD)</figcaption>
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<img src="03_good-design_files/figure-html/ga2-1.png" width="360" style="display: block; margin: auto;" />

<figcaption>Georgia counties filled by area, viridis::viridis palette</figcaption>
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<figure>
<img src="03_good-design_files/figure-html/ga3-1.png" width="360" style="display: block; margin: auto;" />

<figcaption>Georgia counties filled by area, viridis::inferno palette</figcaption>
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# Repetition

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.box-4.large[Repeat some aspect of the design throughout the entire piece.]

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# Things to repeat

.box-4.medium[Colors]

.box-4.medium[Fonts]

.box-inv-4.sp-after[Families, weights, sizes]

.box-4.medium[Graphical elements]

.box-4.medium[Alignments]

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Source: Pages 5 and 9 from Oxfam's 2019 Annual Report/: https://assets.oxfamamerica.org/media/documents/2019_Oxfam_America_Annual_Report_web.pdf

If you want to see generally great examples of public sector designs, search for "<big charity or think tank name> annual report", like "red cross annual report" or "urban institute annual report"

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# Alignment

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.box-1.large[Every item should have a visual connection with something else on the page.]

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# Alignment

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 <figcaption>Bad alignment</figcaption>
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 <img src="img/03/alignment-good.png" alt="Good alignment" title="Good alignment" width="100%">
 <figcaption>Good alignment—everything is connected to something</figcaption>
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Source: Robin Williams, *The Non-Designer's Design Book*

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# Alignment + repetition

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 <img src="img/03/alignment-bad-annotated.png" alt="Bad alignment" title="Bad alignment" width="100%">
 <figcaption>4 vertical alignments; 3 horizontal alignments</figcaption>
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 <img src="img/03/alignment-good-annotated.png" alt="Good alignment" title="Good alignment" width="100%">
 <figcaption>1 shared vertical alignment; 2 horizontal alignments</figcaption>
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# Alignment + contrast

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# Proximity

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.box-inv-4.large[Group related items together.]

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# Proximity

.box-inv-4[Use white space, color, location, contrast, repetition, alignment, etc. to make visually distinct groupings]

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<figure>
 <img src="img/03/proximity-bad.png" alt="Bad proximity" title="Bad proximity" width="100%">
 <figcaption>Bad proximity; no logical groupings</figcaption>
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 <img src="img/03/proximity-good.png" alt="Good proximity" title="Good proximity" width="100%">
 <figcaption>Good proximity; information visually grouped</figcaption>
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Source: Robin Williams, *The Non-Designer's Design Book*

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# CRAP review

<figure>
 <img src="img/03/review-contrast.png" alt="Contrast" title="Contrast" width="100%">
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<figure>
 <img src="img/03/review-repetition.png" alt="Repetition" title="Repetition" width="100%">
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<figure>
 <img src="img/03/review-alignment.png" alt="Alignment" title="Alignment" width="100%">
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 <img src="img/03/review-proximity.png" alt="Proximity" title="Proximity" width="100%">
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