Grids are Good and How to Design with them was by far the best session I’ve attended so far. I was disappointed that it was only 30 minutes long as Mark Boulton and Khoi Vinh were great presenters and made grid theory very accessible. Here are some highlight points from their presentations.
- Humans like to infer intention / order
- The grid is the most vivid manifestation of the will to order in graphic design
- Constraints are the mother of design invention
- Alignment is critical to the success of the grid
- Add more spacing to the bottom of text.
I had a brief chance to talk with Mark Boulton yesterday, and he indicated that he’d be going into more grid theory tomorrow morning, so I’ll definitely be sitting in on that session. Now that we’ve been using Yahoo’s Grid-Font-Reset stylesheet in practically all of our projects, it’s made accessible and standards based grid layout more possible. While, I have yet to push the envelope w/ Yahoo Grids to create some of the calculated grid layouts that Mark or Khoi dream up, it helps me get into the mentality of thinking in grids.