Developing the Invisible


	Developing the Invisible

Djiezes

2-3-2008 7:50 AM

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design, whitespace, visual, user interface, ui, visualization

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ea2626a8-e984-4e15-b5e0-af513d425b36/E91759B3-D408-4AAE-BF8A-1BC1BAF852F5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000097.php" href="http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000097.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.uxmatters.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000097.php"><H1>Developing the Invisible</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000097.php"><P class="author">By <A href="http://www.uxmatters.com/authors/archives/2005/11/luke_wroblewski.php">Luke Wroblewski</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000097.php"><DIV class="pullquote-wide">“<SPAN class="sub-p">What’s
    missing is what’s invisible: alignment and whitespace.</SPAN>”
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000097.php"><DIV class="pullquote-wide">“Changes in padding and alignment
  can negatively impact readability and obscure visual relationships
  that clarify how to use an interface.”
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000097.php">As a designer, I spend a lot of time adjusting
  <A title="whitespace" href="http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/2W/whitespace.htm">whitespace</A><A href="http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/2W/whitespace.htm"><IMG width="14" height="12" class="icon-right" src="http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/../../images/new-window-arrow.gif" /></A> to
  enable effective scanning of content. I also spend a lot of
  time refining alignment and padding to establish the <A title="user interface elements" href="http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/visible_narratives.html">right
  prioritization between user interface elements</A>.<A href="http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/visible_narratives.html"><IMG width="14" height="12" class="icon-right" src="http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/../../images/new-window-arrow.gif" /></A>
  I utilize both of these design elements to guide users through
  the interactions on a page.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E91759B3-D408-4AAE-BF8A-1BC1BAF852F5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>