Visual Design Model
Define the Goal
Is it to motivate or to inform?
Is it to build new skills or build on what the learner already knows
Is it principle based or problem solving?
Determine the Context
Who are the learners?
What is the learning environment?
Are the novice or expert learners?
Are they in a classroom, on the job?
What visuals will be used?
Are you using a computer screen, paper hand outs, a wall chart, or a white board?
What are your Constraints?
Is there a budget, time table, or style guides?
Design the Visual Approach
Determine the image
Asses general graphic requirements
Design Treatment
Make decisions about: strategy, text, visuals, layout, and functionality
Identify Communication Function to Match Content Types
Individual Content
Type of Communication
Apply Principles of Psychological Instructional Events
Planing and laying out the graphics
graphic for cueing, white space distraction, grouping, and visual contiguity