With the start of my new blog, I'm also re-examining my entire perspective on Design, specifically User Interface Design. It's been about 10 years since I first started studying design so I feel it's important to go back to the basics, refresh my design foundation and hopefully learn a lot along the way.

There is nothing more basic than the Elements and Principles of design, they are the primary foundation of every design and are made to be broken.

Elements of Design

• Space
• Line
• Shape
• Direction
• Color
• Texture
• Value

Principles of Design

• Scale
• Proportion
• Unity
• Balance
• Direction
• Emphasis

Over the course of the next few weeks I will dive deeper into each Element and Principle with detailed descriptions and examples of each to help get a broader understanding of how they apply to the real world.

That's all for now!

:: Micah