The biophilia effect is the idea that when we are placed in environments that contain or seem to contain nature, we are more likely to […]
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Baby face bias is a design principle in which designers use the generalized human interpretation of baby-faced features (such as large eyes, round head, small nose and mouth) to represent and codify naiveté, innocence and kindness. By emphasizing or exaggerating baby like features in faces, a design can evoke a feeling of protection, ownership, or forgiveness in a viewer. Alternatively. more angular features, less elongated heads, and other more adult features are less likely to be interpreted as innocent, kind, or naïve.
10 of 365: Baby face bias #design #design-principles
The design principle of area alignment says that when you have a series of objects to be aligned that do not have regular shapes, that it is more aesthetically pleasing to centrally align them according to their area and weight than by central alignment of the bounding boxes.
The design principle of area alignment
2 Anthropomorphic design is a method by which a designer makes use of angles and curves that are inspired by the human form to evoke certain […]
6 of 365: Anthropomorphic #design #principle
Advance Organizers are a design method in which an audience is given new information in one of two ways in order to become oriented with a new concept.
2 of 365: Expository and Comparative Advance Organizers
Welcome, all, to the 2014 edition of 365 sketches. This is a simple offering for the first sketch, but gives some idea of what I […]