Meta Refresh 2012

You’ll take home a simple set of rules and tools on visual design that you can’t go wrong applying.

Outline

There are some simple, non-intuitive principles of design that most non-designers are unaware of, around choice of colours, using white space, typography, alignment, etc.

Some examples of questions we’ll address are:

• What’s a good line height? (Hint: it’s proportional to the square root of the line width.)

• How do I pick an uniformly distributed colour palette for my site?

• What heading font would contrast best with a body font

• Where do I place the images? And what should the image dimensions be?

This will be a tutorial + workshop where we’ll take live examples and see the impact of applying these rules to a website.

Speaker bio

Anand is a data scientist at Gramener, a data visualisation company.

Links

• http://www.s-anand.net/
• http://blog.gramener.com/