5-Stages of The Visual Design Model
1. Define Goals
2. Determine Context
3. Design Visual Approach
4. Identify Communication Function Needed to Match Content Types
5. Apply Principles of Psychological Instructional Events
What are the anticipated outcomes?
Determine the direction of your graphic design process
What is your environment?
Who is your learning audience?
What is your delivery method?
What are your constraints?
What are the content graphic requirements?
What is the image to be projected?
What is the look and feel of the project?
How will you illustrate your content?
What are your content types? Facts, concepts, processes, procedures?
Determine the individual graphics that will illustrate your key points.
White space to eliminate distraction.
Grouping to show relationship.
Graphics for cueing.
Visual contiguity.
What is your layout for the various elements?
Reference: Lyons, C. C. (2011). In R. C. Clark (Ed.), Graphics for learning: Proven guidelines for planning, designing, and evaluating visuals in training materials. essay, Pfeiffer.