Good Design for Screen Genre

A well-designed document always gets more points compare to the bad designed document. Most of the time reader prefer read a good design document because they can catch the messages or information of the document easily and effectively. In Reep (2006) article entitled "Chapter 6: Document design", she indicates that every document designers must design their document based on the four design principle, which is balance, proportion, sequence and consistency in order to produce a good document.

 

 

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Balance principle was applied in the slide above because of the visual "weight" concept. As we can see that author trying to apply a lot of color in this slide to "heavier" the "weight" of the main point. Reep (2006) said that color could catch reader's attention before the black and white. That is why the main point in this slide was colored by purple, yellow, sky blue and pink red.

 

 

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Author refers to another principle in the slide above, which is proportion. Proportion is about the arrangement of the size and placement of the contents in a document. Author emphasize the title "Ideal and Real" by enlarge the font size so that reader can get to know what is the slide about.

 

 

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The slide above clearly shows the texts without being overlap by the background color because author considered the usability of color. White texts and dark background can produce a high contrast. Author trying to avoid using too much color on the slide to prevent confusing and distracting reader.

 

Document designers must carefully design their document because nobody likes to read a bad designed document. Principle of design must always take consider in it so that reader can always enjoy reading a good document without being confused.

 

 

 

 

Reference List

• Reep, Diana C. 2006, ‘Chapter 6: Document design,’ in Technical writing, 6th ed., Pearson Edu, Inc., New York.