Background Study for the Development of an Interactive Multimedia Application : Layout design by Tan Ding Chao

Layout Design

Layout design is a plan of design that make up for the designer can design the posters, magazines, house structures, and the other design more clearly. Layout design is a kind of design that place the content in an open window plane. It help many career of the job like engineering that help them to show the building clearly and more easily explain to their clients.

In the process of the design, that include different area or skill in one team to discuss. The design is not only related to the content on the picture on the list, it does not require the designers to put these content and reasonable arrangement, to visit a pleasing feeling, so as to achieve the content and form the perfect combination, enhance the attractiveness of the design to the clients. Therefore, layout design is a technical work and an art work, designers should have a high artistic accomplishments and aesthetic taste, so as to design a high level of the design. The layout design is determined and an important aspect of your product or not beautiful, through reasonable creative layout, you can put the text, images and other content perfect show in front of the clients, but the layout depends on your artistic accomplishment and innovation ability. However, this is not to say that layout have no guidelines to follow, completely is an inspiration, it also has rules and requirements of their clients, as long as you follow these requirements, coupled with the unique creative therefore will create an attractive layout design.

Layout Design step

1.Ideas

According to the content of the design, you can reference other outstanding design, all kind of knowledge reserve call itself, especially in art, constanly brewing collision in the brain, often inadvertently flash of thought. Then you have to take the time to put it into word something, a rough outline of the layout of the outline of the paper, do not pay attention to detail, as long as there is a contour line. Of course, you can also have a variety of ideas, try to draw them out, and then, with a satisfactory scheme.

2.Preliminary filter the content

This step is to put out the main content on the plane, such as the image, title, text or something that can show the means of the design. It should pay attention to highlight and placed in the most prominent, the most striking position, and then consider other element placement.

The principle of layout design

Above we briefly introduced the steps of layout design, in fact, in the process of conception and design, you must also master a few of the following principles:

1.Balance

A good layout design should give a person a kind of stability, smooth feel, it not only uniform distribution in the text, images and other elements of the space, but also the balance of colour, give a person a kind of harmonious feeling

2. Symmetry and Contrast

Symmetry is a kind of beauty in our life, there are many things that are symmetry, but symmetry will be excessive for a look, feel lose one's vitality, therefore appropriate to break the symmetry, making a change.

3 .Density

Layout design need different style, the appropriate blank, with the space effect, and change the line spacing between paragraph and paragraph.

4. The ratio

Ratio recording, which is very important in the layout, although not necessarily have to be the golden section proportion, but must be coordinated.

The common layout style

1. T font

This layout is the most common, it is refer to the top of the page is a title, below and right display the content. In this type of the layout design we called the T font layout because it seen like the English lette “T”. This layout is clear, prioritize, and very suitable for beginners to learn but like a little dull.

2. Symmetrical type

The design is vertically or horizontally symmetrical layout, is very eye-catching, if the two part with the coordination of webpage, visual effect is very good, very impact.

3. Poster type

This layout is like we usually see the poster, the middle is a very eye-catching also, the design is very beautiful picture, surrounded by pictures and text links. This design used direct some of fashion and the company's home page, very attractive.