Good & Bad Design

By: Lauren Foreman

Alignment, proximity, and repetition! As essential elements to developing good design, these are very important. I realized how important they were in some of the bad examples. Before I read the reading, I could tell when I was looking at a bad or inconvenient design but did not know why. Alignment was often the problem. Too many different alignments make the site look unorganized. It is all about presentation because these sites may not have even been bad sites, but if they are not visually appealing and easily usable, I simply do not want to view them. A site that can not be easily navigated is another turn-off. This is just frustrating. When I am frustrate, I not only choose not to view it but begin to dislike the site.