Read Chapter 2
Answer the seven review questions on pp 42.

1. The three phases of the design process are the information, interaction, and presentation phase.

2. What is the significance of determining target audience? How can the target audience influence the other parts of design?

Different styles and elements of design appeal to different demographics. Knowing the specific audience also determines what information is presented.

3. What are the two tests to determine if a certain piece of content should be included?

Determine the answer to these two questions: Does the specific content help achieve the goal? and Can this information be presented in a way that is easily understood by the intended viewer?

4. “Make It Forgiving” is a concept from the section “Designing Navigation with the Viewer in Mind.”

5. Why are the entrance and exit of a project important? They provide the first and last impression of the product.

6. Define a layout as it applies to a new media project. “The design of the area that will be presented to the viewer.” Basically what the project will look like.

7. A prototype is a working example that allows it to be tested out to work out the kinks. A beta test.

Read Chapter 3. Answer review questions 2, 3, 6, 7 & 8 found on page 64. Post answers to the web and supply me with the URL.

2. What is positive space? Usually the foreground, the space the main image takes up.

3. What is negative space? Usually the background, the space around the main image.

6. Would an object closer to a viewer normally appear lower or higher in an image? I think it depends on the perspective. But usually lower = closer.

7. Would objects in the distance usually appear lighter or darker when compared to objects that are closer to the viewer? Lighter.

8. Would objects that are closer to the viewer appear to have sharper focus that those in the background? Of course, you can usually see objects that are closer to you better. Unless your far-sighted.

I guess I will go back through and do these when I get the book.

Read Chapter 4 and complete any three review questions on page 86 & 87.

1. What is a contour drawing?

A contour drawing uses lines to illustrate changes in a plane/object. Say in a hand, everywhere there is an edge or a dent, where the skin differs in depth or even color such as a mole or wrinkle, a line is drawn.

2. How does variation of line thickness affect a drawing?

Line thickness can add depth or closeness to a drawing.

5. How can pixelation affect a curved line displayed on a monitor?

The individual pixels can cause the line to look jagged, because the pixels are square themselves.

Read chapters 5 & 6. Answer two review questions from Ch 5 & two review questions from Ch 6.
Post the page to the web & provide me with the URL.

Ch5:

1. Shape can be thought of as a combination of what two design elements?

Line and space combine to make shape.

3. Yes

4. How can negative space be used to form a shape that enhances an image?

An image can be enhanced by using a shape to balance the image, draw the eye around, or highlight the main image.
Our eyes tend to impose shape even where it is not, so our eyes may see shapes in negative space.

5. Yes. 6. Yes.

Ch6:

3. A greater range of value, usually increases the detail of a image. With more value it is easier to create the illusion of depth which adds much detail to the image.

6. A upper-left hand light source is generally preferred, and it makes viewers unsettled when coming from elsewhere.
I had noticed before that I tend to always put my light sources in that direction and it had kinda bummed me how unoriginal I always seem to be in that regard. But now I understand that I unconsciously put it there because that is where my brain prefers it. Though in the future I might try to place a light source differently to gain that dramatic or unsettling feeling that happens when light is put to the contrary.