Comments on: The importance of White Space in design http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/07/the-importance-of-white-space-in-design/ The Science of Web Art, Design and Development Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:54:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: guioconnor http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/07/the-importance-of-white-space-in-design/#comment-453 guioconnor Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:01:15 +0000 http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/07/the-importance-of-white-space-in-design/#comment-453 @Cadarn - Thank you very much for the inspired comment. In fact, it is true, it is all about helping the readers to do what both you (the writer) and them want to do, that is: read. @Renato - Yes, you are right, it is exactly the same kind of thing, it a very good analogy. @Cadarn - Thank you very much for the inspired comment.

In fact, it is true, it is all about helping the readers to do what both you (the writer) and them want to do, that is: read.

@Renato - Yes, you are right, it is exactly the same kind of thing, it a very good analogy.

]]> By: guioconnor http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/07/the-importance-of-white-space-in-design/#comment-452 guioconnor Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:59:28 +0000 http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/07/the-importance-of-white-space-in-design/#comment-452 Because many readers of this blog don't understand either Spanish or Portuguese, I will try to make my own [resumed] translation of the comments above: @Cadarn - <blockquote>The eye, that is very resourceful, completes any design disfunction, it even corrects text and syntax errors, and even missing or misplaced letters. It is expected that it can recongnize a squeezed design but it feels happier when the design is clearm has spaces that lead the way through the main line of the message and it doesn't have to stop with obstacles on the way. That old proverb that says "Good things when brief, twice good" also applies to design. Few, clear and good is always better than much, polluted and saturated. The eye gets tired looking for the forms that mix themselvs, hiding each others and, as we know, tired is no good. If you put too many products on a shop window, you will only get that the people passing by won't be able to distinguish any of them and just pass through. Few products and one highlighted would tease their interest or curiosity and may make him/her to enter and interest him/herself even for other offers. The message must be clear, maybe associated to a central idea, but the structure of the message must be secondary... The message is the primoridial thing. When the public comments how good a certain ad is but don't remind the product associated, it could be a an excellent piece of art but the message, which is put on a second plance, will remain hidden. [...] Derfel</blockquote> @Renato - <blockquote>Is almost analog to the role of silences in music... </blockquote> Because many readers of this blog don’t understand either Spanish or Portuguese, I will try to make my own [resumed] translation of the comments above:

@Cadarn -

The eye, that is very resourceful, completes any design disfunction, it even corrects text and syntax errors, and even missing or misplaced letters.

It is expected that it can recongnize a squeezed design but it feels happier when the design is clearm has spaces that lead the way through the main line of the message and it doesn’t have to stop with obstacles on the way.

That old proverb that says “Good things when brief, twice good” also applies to design.

Few, clear and good is always better than much, polluted and saturated. The eye gets tired looking for the forms that mix themselvs, hiding each others and, as we know, tired is no good.

If you put too many products on a shop window, you will only get that the people passing by won’t be able to distinguish any of them and just pass through.

Few products and one highlighted would tease their interest or curiosity and may make him/her to enter and interest him/herself even for other offers.

The message must be clear, maybe associated to a central idea, but the structure of the message must be secondary… The message is the primoridial thing.

When the public comments how good a certain ad is but don’t remind the product associated, it could be a an excellent piece of art but the message, which is put on a second plance, will remain hidden.

[…]

Derfel

@Renato -

Is almost analog to the role of silences in music…

]]> By: Renato http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/07/the-importance-of-white-space-in-design/#comment-450 Renato Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:02:25 +0000 http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/07/the-importance-of-white-space-in-design/#comment-450 É quase análogo ao papel do silêncio na música... É quase análogo ao papel do silêncio na música…

]]> By: Cadarn http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/07/the-importance-of-white-space-in-design/#comment-449 Cadarn Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:13:08 +0000 http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/07/the-importance-of-white-space-in-design/#comment-449 El ojo, que es muy hábil, completa cualquier deficiencia del diseño, inclusive corrige errores de texto, sintaxis y hasta letras faltantes o puestos en sentido inverso. Es de esperar que pueda reconocer un diseño realizado apretadamente, pero se siente más feliz cuando el diseño es claro, tiene espacios para recorrer la línea principal del mensaje y no tiene que detenerse en los recovecos del camino. Eso de que lo breve si bueno… también puede aplicarse al diseño. Poco, claro y bueno es siempre mejor que mucho, engorroso y saturado. El ojo se fatiga buscando las formas que se mezclan ocultándose unas a otras. Y como sabemos, la fatiga no es buena. Si se colocan muchos productos amontonados en una vidriera sólo se logrará que el paseant no distinga a ninguno, y pase de largo. Pocos productos y uno destacado desatarán su interés o curiosidad, tal vez entre y se interese, además, por otras ofertas. El mensaje debe ser claro, tal vez asociado a una idea central, pero la estructura del mensaje debe ser secundaria… el mensaje es la cosa primordial. Cuando el público comenta lo bueno de una publicidad pero no recuerda el producto, se puede tratar de una excelente obra de arte, pero su mensaje, que pasa a segundo o último término, permanecerá oculto. Sobre el clic en el botón de si uno es humano, lo puse porque sería muy largo de explicar el género correspondiente. Derfel El ojo, que es muy hábil, completa cualquier deficiencia del diseño, inclusive corrige errores de texto, sintaxis y hasta letras faltantes o puestos en sentido inverso.
Es de esperar que pueda reconocer un diseño realizado apretadamente, pero se siente más feliz cuando el diseño es claro, tiene espacios para recorrer la línea principal del mensaje y no tiene que detenerse en los recovecos del camino.
Eso de que lo breve si bueno… también puede aplicarse al diseño. Poco, claro y bueno es siempre mejor que mucho, engorroso y saturado. El ojo se fatiga buscando las formas que se mezclan ocultándose unas a otras. Y como sabemos, la fatiga no es buena. Si se colocan muchos productos amontonados en una vidriera sólo se logrará que el paseant no distinga a ninguno, y pase de largo. Pocos productos y uno destacado desatarán su interés o curiosidad, tal vez entre y se interese, además, por otras ofertas.
El mensaje debe ser claro, tal vez asociado a una idea central, pero la estructura del mensaje debe ser secundaria… el mensaje es la cosa primordial. Cuando el público comenta lo bueno de una publicidad pero no recuerda el producto, se puede tratar de una excelente obra de arte, pero su mensaje, que pasa a segundo o último término, permanecerá oculto.

Sobre el clic en el botón de si uno es humano, lo puse porque sería muy largo de explicar el género correspondiente.

Derfel

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