Visual Design & Language Teaching
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This document discusses using visual design elements like imagery, color, typography and shapes to enhance usability and user experience in language teaching. It provides examples of how to develop visuals alongside content, lists principles of visual design like balance and rhythm, and notes trends in colors, fonts and shapes. Resources for creating mind maps, infographics, interactive whiteboards and video presentations are included to help visualize course content using images and other graphic elements.
Visual Design & Language Teaching
- 1. Visual Design & Language Teaching Nadezhda A Kabanova 2017
- 2. Visual design is the use of imagery, color, shapes, typography, and form to enhance usability and improve the user experience Visual design as a field has grown out of both User Interface (UI) design and graphic design* *http://www.uxbooth.com/categories/visual-design/
- 3. Creating Effective Content Using Visual Design* Develop visuals alongside content Distraction is bad (good design is invisible) Follow the principles (balance, proportion, dominance, rhythm and unity) Consistency is good Visuals cannot save bad content *https://linkstreet.in/creating-effective-content-using-visual-design/
- 4. Color, font, shape Inspiration is everywhere
- 7. Colors & Fonts new trends Clear, pleasant colors (bright, pastel) Simple smooth shapes Handwritten fonts
- 8. Visualising the Content of a Language Course Hypertext (together with image) Graphic organisers (tables, mindmaps, sticky notes, blocks and shapes) Animated/Video presentations Infographics Video
- 14. Video presentations PowToon https://www.powtoon.com https://youtu.be/dch6CngmRWw