Last week, there were some interesting “Eureka!” moments. Both concerned color theory and CSS grids. Come, let me tell you what I mean…
While designing our midterm microsites, the learning continues; principles and tools we can certainly apply to my microsite. Now, I never took the class of color theory, but I was under the impression that I didn’t need a class like that because I thought I had a good enough eye to create a decent color palette.
Nope! I was wrong. Evidently, my color palettes were missing crucial balancing elements. For example, one of the palettes I created was missing a warm color to balance my cool hues, or a high saturation color to contrast the rest of the colors. Thankfully, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop have tools that can help you with choosing a balanced color palette. I played with the Coolors.co website and created a balanced color palette, but just cringed. I was uncomfortable with being balanced apparently. That’s something that I feel I need to work more on and get familiar with what works best together.
Though there is some additional research to take a look at, CSS grids have a lot of design potential. There is so much creativity that can be used alongside CSS grids. The possibilities are endless pretty much. Nevertheless, it seems that CSS grids would make layout coding really simple. Much more simple than messing with margin and padding measurements, that’s for sure. I had a lot of fun with playing around with the different arrangements of what constitutes as a grid. The coding is relatively simple if a designer wanted to use CSS grid often in their layouts.
Speaking with Bill and giving him feedback in regards to what additional skills for layout design that would be cool to learn, I’m really looking forward to see how difficult or how useful those tools can be. I love learning new stuff, especially when it can help make a design more dynamic or so creative it adds a something more to an already conceptualized design.