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Aligning objects to achieve balance

Aligning objects to achieve balance

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Aligning objects to achieve balance

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- [Instructor] The next principle of design we'll explore is balance. In design, balance can happen in several ways including paying special attention to the alignment, distribution, and placement of various shaped, colored, and sized objects in your layouts. In fact, we can say that balance occurs in a design when the elements as a whole have a feeling of equality of weight, attention, or attraction. To illustrate this idea, let me tell you a personal story. I once had a student who showed me a very simple web design mock up she had been working on that had several objects oddly and not pleasingly scattered willy-nilly in the center of the page somewhat like this. While the elements in the rest of her layout looked mostly balanced, the objects at the center seemed really unresolved. When I asked her if she had deliberately placed these center objects as they were, or if she had used some kind of logic in considering their placement, she replied, "No, I just put them there," and then…

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