Topics
- Circles – draw your eye;
- Saccade – eye is constantly scanning around;
- Things that move are perceived first, then brightness, then color…
- Circles live outside the lines;
- Diagonals add dynamics allows us to break up the grid.
Lecture
Exercise 1
Choose two sample images, one of web design and one photo of a portrait or landscape (use Dribble & Unsplash). Using a digital drawing tool (or print and hand draw), for each image scribble an approximate visual scanning map to illustrate the saccade experience. From the lecture:
Estimated Saccade Visual Scan
Exercise 2
Find three examples of the use of diagonals in web design, illustration, and photography (portrait or landscape). Be sure to find one example in each category.
For the blog
Describe how you approached the saccade exercise. How did you recognize that your eyes were spending more time looking at one thing over another? For one of the two images describe why you think you focused on one or two particular visual elements more than others? What was the ‘hierarchy’ created?
