Through a series of exercises and an active discussion, the workshop will introduce you to the four main aspects of the graphic user interface.
1. Typography and readability:
- Balance formula or how do letter size, line width and line spacing depend on each other?
- Macro typography or how do the alignment, grouping and composition of the text block affect the perception?
- Features of legibility or how do lettercase, weight and style can change the impact of any typeface?
2. Images and symbols:
- Frame space or how do responsiveness, geometry and perspective affect illustration?
- Frame content or how do framing the image, silhouette and wallpaper change the image?
- Iconography or how do the recognizability, associativity and concreteness of a symbol affect perception?
3. Space and composition:
- Imprints of perception, or how do mass, similarity, and pulling give different meaning to the image
- Graphic gravity or how do individual, internal and external centrifugal and centripetal forces order space?
- Areas and grids or what do a hamburger and a screen have in common?
4. Function and interaction:
- The metamorphoses of form or why and how do we need to use the different states of interactivity?
- The main characters of interaction or how do the link, button, pointer and scroll help our actions?
- Behavioral stereotypes and A/B tests or how to look critically at the information that floods us on the Internet?
The workshop will be most useful to product, UX and UI designers with some experience but also to anyone tempted by the user interface and wishing to navigate the specifics of design for an interactive environment.
Don’t forget to take your favorite analog and digital sketching, design and prototyping tools with you!
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This workshop will be delivered in Bulgarian.
Борил Караиванов
Designer
Boril is a book artist by training who has worked over the years in graphic design, advertising and the internet. He is from the first generation of web designers and has participated in the realization of projects that have become iconic for the development of the Bulgarian web. He is a long-time member of the management board of the Bulgarian Web Association and chairman of the jury of the Bulgarian Web Awards.
Boril is a published author, active speaker and teacher at numerous events and trainings on web, graphic and type design. He is one of the founders of the initiative For Bulgarian Cyrillic, organizer of the Typofest festival and Typoclass trainings. He supports the New Bulgarian Typography exhibition and teaches Typography Fundamentals at SoftUni Creative.
Антония Гласкова
UX/UI designer, Facilitator
User interface designer at a large fintech company who designs in a graphically constrained environment, structuring information and finding solutions to a variety of problems and tasks on a daily basis. She is interested in typography, graphic identity and photography.
Адриана Тонева
UX/UI designer, Facilitator
Freelance UI/UX designer focused on designing user interfaces that resonate with the client’s goals. She has experience in web project management, curiosity for no-code technologies, and interests in calligraphy and typography.