Team Challenge 4: Designing Documents
This challenge is a little bit different. In this module, I’m asking you to think quite a bit about the visual design of your documents, so for this challenge, I’d like you to get a little bit of practice using some terminology.
The Scenario:
In this module’s lecture, I introduced some terms for talking about document design. This challenge is designed to simply give you some practice using that terminology, and the course assignment for this module will give you some practice applying it to your own document.
The Task:
Your task is to analyze the following document for clarity and ease-of-reading. The content itself is not as important as how well the design of the document helps you to process the information it contains.
Here is what we’ll be looking at (keep in mind that it is two pages, there is a “gutter” in the middle).
Step One: Identify features
As a team, you will need to create a shared document on which you can answer the following questions:
1. Where do you see “balance” at work in this document? Where (if anywhere) could the balance be improved?
2. Where do you see “alignment” at work in this document? Where (if anywhere) could the alignment be improved?
3. How do you see “grouping” working in this document? Which information is grouped together?
4. Where is the document “consistent”? Are there gaps in consistency?
5. How does “contrast” help you navigate which information is important? What do you think about the contrast choices here?
Step Two: Analyzing choices
Again, as a team, develop your answer to these questions on the same shared document:
1. What is the most important information on this page? How do you know?
2. What design choices would you have made differently and why?
Delivery
You should create a .doc, .docx, or .pdf file that shows the work your group has done in answering the above questions. Submit the file to Canvas within one week.
Team Challenge 4: Designing Documents
This challenge is a little bit different. In this module, I’m asking you to think quite a bit about the visual design of your documents, so for this challenge, I’d like you to get a little bit of practice using some terminology.
The Scenario:
In this module’s lecture, I introduced some terms for talking about document design. This challenge is designed to simply give you some practice using that terminology, and the course assignment for this module will give you some practice applying it to your own document.
The Task:
Your task is to analyze the following document for clarity and ease-of-reading. The content itself is not as important as how well the design of the document helps you to process the information it contains.
Here is what we’ll be looking at (keep in mind that it is two pages, there is a “gutter” in the middle).
Step One: Identify features
As a team, you will need to create a shared document on which you can answer the following questions:
1. Where do you see “balance” at work in this document? Where (if anywhere) could the balance be improved?
2. Where do you see “alignment” at work in this document? Where (if anywhere) could the alignment be improved?
3. How do you see “grouping” working in this document? Which information is grouped together?
4. Where is the document “consistent”? Are there gaps in consistency?
5. How does “contrast” help you navigate which information is important? What do you think about the contrast choices here?
Step Two: Analyzing choices
Again, as a team, develop your answer to these questions on the same shared document:
1. What is the most important information on this page? How do you know?
2. What design choices would you have made differently and why?
Delivery
You should create a .doc, .docx, or .pdf file that shows the work your group has done in answering the above questions. Submit the file to Canvas within one week.