Good and Bad Design

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Good and Bad Design

• The Global Creators
• (Formerly known as Group Won)

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• The following six slides are examples of graphs
  my eighth graders created in an Excel lesson. We
  discussed design in terms of
• Readability
• Compatible colors
• Font size
• Audience
• Purpose of the Graph

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THE GOOD
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THE BAD
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THE UGLYThe next graphs are the examples used
for the class created by me.
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Example of A Good/Bad Website Design
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Example of A Good Web Design (Dee)

• This website is good because
• Clean lay out
• Links galore
• Easily navigated
• Detailed information
• Updated daily

www.imdb.com
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apple.com
Good Design (Tate)

• Simple clean design
• Elegant
• Easy to use Tab Navigation System
• Consistent use of color
• Legible fonts
• Excellent photography
• Fast loading

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wncw.org/arc.cfm
Poor Design (Tate)

• Highly cluttered
• Poor page layout
• Inconsistent navigation links
• Multiple use of color
• Multiple typefaces
• Inconsistent font size
• Poor image quality
• It gets worst (next slide)

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wncw.org/arc.cfm
Poor(er) Design (Tate)

• Highly cluttered
• Extremely poor page layout
• Extremely small font size
• Poor image quality

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Good design (Elena)
Multilingual dictionary Simple clean design Easy
to use References to encyclopedias and special
dictionaries. Saves a lot of time
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Bad Design (Elena)

• Green actually is one of my favorite colors,
  but probably not as a background for any
  web-page. ?
• The combination of colors is bad in general.
  It is difficult to see the text

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You can find examples of bad or good design
everywhere

• Power window controls
• Almost every car has the window controls
  (manual or power) on the door panel. The PT
  Cruiser, however, has them on the control panel,
  in the middle of the car, so every time that
  anyone who wants to open the window spends a long
  time figuring where the controls are.

• Converter from 240 V to 120 V
• The design of the portable converter makes
  it compact and with clean lines. However, it was
  never tested in European sockets. The prongs of
  the plug are not long enough to reach into the
  recessed sockets that are now the norm. (I bought
  it myself and had really hard time to work on my
  computer)

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More examples

• Linda Brasil de Botic
• A perfume created especially to honor women.
  Upon opening, the package blooms like a flower.
  Pastel shades of green, yellow, and gold accent
  the appeal of this limited edition package.

• Institutional Re-Closable Lid
• This new lid has a finger-operated slide
  control that opens and closes the drinking hole.
  Because the slide can be used with one hand, and
  equally effectively with either the left or
  right, the lid can be quickly and conveniently
  opened and closed, thus assuring greater
  spill-security.

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More examples

• Bad Design
• Schwarzkopf Henkel (a few years ago)
  shampoo and conditioner looked identical (it was
  especially typical for products designed for
  men).
• Last year my friend bought a bottle of
  conditioner instead of shampoo.

• Good design
• it looks like the company paid attention to
  this fact and now you can easily distinguish the
  bottles as they have different colored cups