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Visual design: not just for those who can draw

If you’ve ever had your carefully crafted wireframes or content go awry in the visual design stage and haven’t been sure how to address it (or had the confidence), Dan Rubin’s “Visual Design Essentials for Non-Designers” is for you.

Dan will cover a range of topics aimed at UX and content professionals:
- Common design mistakes
- Tips for layout
- Designing for content
- How to conduct a design critique

The details: where to be

We’ll be showing this seminar for free here at iQ this Thursday:

Visual Design Essentials for Non-Designers
Thursday 27th May
2nd Floor Clarendon House
34-37 Clarendon Street (opposite Saba – Google Map)
6:00pm – 6:30pm Drinks and pizza
6:30pm – 8:00pm Virtual seminar (and more drinks and pizza)

RSVP: Space is limited so please email cory.joseph@iqcontent.com or reply on Twitter @iqcontent if you’d like to attend – first come, first served!

Postscript: thanks and links

A big thank-you to everyone that came along. Unfortunately we can’t republish the slides, but here are the list of links and tools that Dan mentioned:

Kuler – Adobe’s online colour palette tool, create colour schemes from photos
Widon’t – Plug-in to prevent widows
960 Grid Systems – Grid templates for all major design programs
Stefan Klocek’s blog on conducting a design critique
Scott Berkun’s blog on how to run a design critique
Ethan Marcotte’s article on Fluid Grids

There’s a good chance we’ll be running more of these in the future – keep an eye on our blog or @iqcontent for details.