Comments on: Can you feel that? It's visual discomfort. http://sparkyfirepants.com/bloggitywordypants/can-you-feel-that-its-visual-discomfort/ Fresh & bright design for licensing Sat, 05 May 2012 02:39:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Songtaneous » Making Space http://sparkyfirepants.com/bloggitywordypants/can-you-feel-that-its-visual-discomfort/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Songtaneous » Making Space Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:37:52 +0000 http://sparkyfirepants.com/?p=1043#comment-270 [...] friend Sparky wrote this post about visual discomfort a few weeks ago. In it, he talks about how spacing things too tightly in a [...] [...] friend Sparky wrote this post about visual discomfort a few weeks ago. In it, he talks about how spacing things too tightly in a [...]

]]> By: Naomi Niles http://sparkyfirepants.com/bloggitywordypants/can-you-feel-that-its-visual-discomfort/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Naomi Niles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:59:42 +0000 http://sparkyfirepants.com/?p=1043#comment-269 Good one. I'm very sensitive with personal space too. I love the analogy here. I also like what you mention about it not quite feeling right and I think that's good too. Sometimes things just don't work and it's good to listen to that feeling.<br><br>I get new web designers asking me every once in awhile to critique their designs. Most of the time, the designs aren't really bad, but they make the same mistake. I tell them, "give it margins and paddings and even it all out". Which, is pretty much the techie css way of stating what you are saying - give it room to breath and make it symmetrical. <br><br>Amazing how much better a design becomes just by doing that alone. Good one. I'm very sensitive with personal space too. I love the analogy here. I also like what you mention about it not quite feeling right and I think that's good too. Sometimes things just don't work and it's good to listen to that feeling.

I get new web designers asking me every once in awhile to critique their designs. Most of the time, the designs aren't really bad, but they make the same mistake. I tell them, “give it margins and paddings and even it all out”. Which, is pretty much the techie css way of stating what you are saying – give it room to breath and make it symmetrical.

Amazing how much better a design becomes just by doing that alone.

]]> By: Naomi Niles http://sparkyfirepants.com/bloggitywordypants/can-you-feel-that-its-visual-discomfort/comment-page-1/#comment-1087 Naomi Niles Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:59:42 +0000 http://sparkyfirepants.com/?p=1043#comment-1087 Good one. I'm very sensitive with personal space too. I love the analogy here. I also like what you mention about it not quite feeling right and I think that's good too. Sometimes things just don't work and it's good to listen to that feeling.<br><br>I get new web designers asking me every once in awhile to critique their designs. Most of the time, the designs aren't really bad, but they make the same mistake. I tell them, "give it margins and paddings and even it all out". Which, is pretty much the techie css way of stating what you are saying - give it room to breath and make it symmetrical. <br><br>Amazing how much better a design becomes just by doing that alone. Good one. I'm very sensitive with personal space too. I love the analogy here. I also like what you mention about it not quite feeling right and I think that's good too. Sometimes things just don't work and it's good to listen to that feeling.

I get new web designers asking me every once in awhile to critique their designs. Most of the time, the designs aren't really bad, but they make the same mistake. I tell them, “give it margins and paddings and even it all out”. Which, is pretty much the techie css way of stating what you are saying – give it room to breath and make it symmetrical.

Amazing how much better a design becomes just by doing that alone.

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