Visual Design Principles for Writers: Enhancing Usability and Readability
STC-Montreal Workshop | Posted January 5th, 2007
Readability is about more than lucid writing. Readability is also a matter of visual design - so that your text’s visual presentation, its legibility, and visual surroundings have a considerable impact on the perceived quality of the writing itself.
This workshop is aimed at writers who want to expand their visual design skills and/or who want to work more effectively with designers, the workshop will present essential design strategies/ principles, and explore contemporary design aesthetics.
Topics covered include:
- Optimizing readability/legibility (on screen and in print)
- Enhancing usability (from a visual design perspective)
- Producing attractive layouts and colour schemes
- Exploring contemporary design aesthetics
- Managing a design critique
Format: One-day workshop, light lunch included. Presented in English.
Contact for information: Linda Aikens. If you have tried to contact us recently regarding this or any other STC event, and have not heard a reply, please try again at the email address above. We apologize for our technical glitches, and will have things sorted out soon.
About David Deskin
David Deskin is the President of Adage Media, a Montreal-based print and interactive media design firm which produces training, marketing and identity materials for major corporate and public-sector clients. David also teaches interactive media design at John Abbott College. As a usability evangelist, his leading aspirations include sharing methods for effectively optimizing: information architecture, content accessibility, interface ergonomics, aesthetics, extensibility, and the identification of user-experience imperatives. http://www.adage-media.com/
When and Where
When: 29 January 2007, 9:00am–5:00pm
Where: Ericsson 8400 Decarie, De la Savane metro or free parking
Cost: $175 STC Montreal chapter members, $195 STC members, $215 non-members
