This is where secondary and global or redundant navigation resides it can also contain helpful information like business contact information.

This is where the information content, forms, task areas, and branding for landing experiences is located. This should be where the majority of screen real estate is dedicated. Note these can also be panels (see below). This is usually near the top or to the left-hand side of the screen. Headers are typically a constant element in the layout of a template, so it’s important to carefully choose what you put on this valuable screen space. This is the topmost region in any given layout, it is used for global branding and global navigation elements in mobile and web design, and you will often see this region used for toolbars and navigation in software.

Whether you are designing for web, software, or mobile layouts, you can typically count on having one or more of the following UI regions to work with (see also Figure 4-22): Header/window title

Her gaze is pointed to the headline, which uses implied lines to subconsciously guide the viewer’s eye around the layout to hit all the of the most important elements of the page. Pay particular attention to the gaze of the young woman in the photo. In the example in Figure 4-16, the designer who created this older Uber home page used several techniques to guide the eye around the screen from the use of the blue call to action buttons, to the use of a grid to bring harmony to the composition, to the size of the headline in comparison to the subhead. This creates a visual narrative for the viewer to follow. So, how do you create a good visual flow? One simple way is to use implied lines, either curved or straight, to connect elements on the page. The best commercial graphic artists are masters at setting up focal points to manipulate what you see first. The next time you pick up a magazine, look at some well-designed ads and notice what your eyes gravitate toward. A good visual hierarchy uses focal points to pull eyes to the appropriate places in the correct order. You tend to follow them from strongest to weakest, and skillfully designed pages have only a few-too many focal points dilute the importance of each one. When faced with a monotonous page of text, that’s what you’ll do naturally but if there are strong focal points on the page, they can distract you from the usual progression, for better or for worse.įocal points are the spots your eyes can’t resist going to. For those raised in Western culture, one is our tendency to read top to bottom and left to right. Several forces can work against one another when you try to set up a visual flow. It’s intimately related to visual hierarchy, of course-a well-designed visual hierarchy sets up focal points on the page wherever you need to draw attention to the most important elements, and visual flow leads the eyes from those into the less important information.Īs a designer, you want to be able to control visual flow on a page so that people follow it in approximately the correct sequence. “The Library is so pleased to house this tremendous display of his body of work.”Ī raffle for a signed Mike Peters print will be held on the final day of the exhibit, May 11, with the proceeds benefitting the Friends of the Dayton Metro Library.įor more information, call 937.463.2665 or visit flow deals with the tracks that readers’ eyes tend to follow as they scan the page. “Mike Peters cartoons have been a popular feature in the Dayton Daily News for many years, and they always give people something to talk about at the water cooler,” said Jayne Klose, Dayton Metro Library Community Engagement Manager.

The artwork on display comes from the cartoon museum at the Ohio State University Library. “What a Hoot!” celebrates Cox Media Group’s 50-year relationship with Peters. He began working for the Dayton Daily News in 1969 and his cartoons became nationally syndicated in 1972. The University of Dayton awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree in 1998. He won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning and the National Cartoonists Society’s 1991 Reuben Award for cartoonist of the year. Presidents and created a successful comic strip, Mother Goose and Grimm, which has been published worldwide since 1984. The exhibit features more than 90 pieces – from notebooks and sketches to editorial cartoons and comic strips – in the Main Library’s Opportunity Space Patterson, 215 E. A half century of his artwork is celebrated in “What A Hoot!” a retrospective of his work on display at the Dayton Metro Library, April 3 - May 11. 'What a Hoot!' The Art of Mike Peters on Display at the Main LibraryĪ teacher once wrote in Mike Peters’ yearbook, “Better start growing up, you can’t always draw cartoons!”įifty years, one Pulitzer Prize and many other awards later, Mike Peters is still drawing cartoons.

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