DDP

Question 1

Which element can be used to connect 2 points, separate sections of a design or focus the user’s eye?

Answer 1

line

Question 2

A jagged line conveys what?

Answer 2

Emotion

Question 3

What type of line forces the viewer’s eye to look at something?

Answer 3

A line that ends with an arrow

Question 4

What effect does a line that meanders have?

Answer 4

Guides the viewer from one element to the next

Question 5

Name the 3 basic geometric shapes

Answer 5

square, circle, triangle

Question 6

What are shapes used for?

Answer 6

Boxes, Borders on a design or as a solid shapes for decorative purposes

Question 7

What other type of shapes add interest to the design?

Answer 7

Icons, symbols and dingbats

Question 8

Visual texture is created in graphics to do what?

Answer 8

Draw attention to an element on the page or to serve as a background in a web design

Question 9

What can texture do?

Answer 9

Increase overall visual appearance and draw attention

Question 10

What can texture be added to?

Answer 10

Type, images and other elements

Question 11

What does value refer to?

Answer 11

How light or dark an area of the design look

Question 12

What can value create?

Answer 12

Contrast

Question 13

What shade has most value?

Answer 13

white

Question 14

What shade has least value?

Answer 14

Black

Question 15

What does alignment refer to?

Answer 15

Elements of a design along the top, bottom, centre or sides of the elements

Question 16

Contrast occurs with what?

Answer 16

The juxtaposition of opposing elements, e.g. big versus small

Question 17

What can contrast highlight?

Answer 17

Important elements of a design

Question 18

Contrast can occur in colour but what else?

Answer 18

Texture, type and graphic elements.

Question 19

How is depth achieved?

Answer 19

By creating a sense of spacing between the background, mid-ground, foreground

Question 20

What is placed in the foreground?

Answer 20

Important focal points

Question 21

Overlapping elements on different planes create depth, what is another method?

Answer 21

Altering colour intensity of elements to appear closer or farther away

Question 22

Proportion is the relationship of what?

Answer 22

Two or more elements in a design and how they compare with one another

Question 23

When is proportion said to be harmonious?

Answer 23

When a correct relationship exists between the elements with respect to size or quantity

Question 24

Good proportion adds what?

Answer 24

Harmony, symmetry or balance among the parts of a design

Question 25

What does unity maintain?

Answer 25

A relationship between items that go together (connected visually)

Question 26

What is grid structure?

Answer 26

is a series of evenly spaced blocks that help organize designs in a way that optimizes visual flow of information