Nova Poshta / website on Behance. Behance. 5 Common Visual Design Mistakes. I was working with a student intern the other day. We reviewed his first attempt at a rapid elearning course. For this review, we focused on the course’s visual design. Overall, he did a great job, especially for someone just starting out. However, he made some mistakes that are common to many of the courses I see. I thought I’d do a quick rundown of what they are and provide some tips on how to prevent them. 1. Good elearning design is as much about visual communication as it instructional design and learning theory.
When I learned video production years ago, we were always told that everything in the frame means something. Look at a company like Apple. In the same sense, your course is a story. It’s not about just making the screen look good. 2. Your course has a central idea or objective and the visual design should be built around that. Many web designers will use a grid structure to map out the page design. 3. The second rule is to use graphics that belong together. 4. 5. A Complete Guide to Creating Awesome Visual Content. We love setting goals for improvement here at the Buffer blog, and one of our most recent challenges has been this: Every post gets an original image.
This might not sound like such a tall task until you consider that Courtney and I are journalism majors whose skills lie in painting pictures with words and not so much in painting pictures with Photoshop. We try our best, in the name of visual content. You’ve perhaps heard of visual content? The term seems to be everywhere these days. We come across it all the time as we’re curating content, and it seems that social media strategies now consider visuals as required elements. As visual content on social networks has grown, so too has the emphasis on storytelling with pictures.
So what are you to do with this new focus on visuals? First off: Why visual content is so important Here are some telling stats on just how big visual content has become and how it’s changing the way we all approach marketing. 1. 2. 3. 4. 9 major types of visual content. Issue. BBC News Channel - Click. Motionographer Sharing the best in moving media.