The fundamental principles for communicating visually.
- Take thoughtbot's Design for Developers tutorial
- Read Visual Grammar for a basic understanding on basic elements of design and how they relate to each other
- Read Universal Principles of Design for a larger array of principles covering an array of medium
- Intentionally use visual design principles in your design.
- Intentionally break visual design principles in your design.
- Use the vocabulary of visual design principles when articulating the reasons for your design and when critiquing teammates' designs.
- Point out what visual principles, in any medium, that are being used in a design and why they are helping the design be successful or unsuccessful.
- Read Smashing Magazine's Design Principles: Visual Perception And The Principles Of Gestalt
- Understand where the visual principles came from and what the history is behind them.
- Reference the psychology behind visual principles.