Visual Design Critique

Slide 1

Strengths

• Appropriate picture (e.g. the frog) is being used since the lesson is teaching about frogs. Thus no distraction to the students as the picture is related to the text.
• The main text’s font is large enough for the audience to see especially at those at the back of the room.
• Non-complicated background design is being used and the text color is in good contrast to the background. These enable the students to read at ease.
• The audio instructions given are in the correct pace and clear enough without usage of difficult vocabulary so that the students are able to understand it.
• Different frog sounds help to add richness to the lesson. Students will be able to related more to the topic.

Areas of improvement

• The title (e.g. Lesson Menu) can be written in a larger font than the text and capital letterings can be used here. This will help emphasize more on which is the title and which is the text.
• Different color font should be use for the “click on the buttons to learn more” and “click the icons to hear some frog sound”. This will help to differentiate the non relation of the two.

Slide 2

Strengths

• The size of the font use for the main text is large enough for the whole class to see and the line spacing is just right so that the text won't be clump together and cause difficulty in reading.
• The title “facts about frogs” is in the correct font size for it is large enough for students to see and capital letterings are being used help to bring students' attention to it, allowing them to know what is this slide about.

Areas of improvement

• The picture chosen can be make bigger and clearer as it is quite hard to identify the frog on the picture especially it camouflage so well with its surroundings.
• The transitional effect of the text is inappropriate, for it causes distraction.

Slide 3

Strengths

• The graphics chosen are appropriate for they are simple and easy to view.
• Shortcuts to various stages of the frog are available at the cycle enable easy access to them.

Areas of improvement

• The instruction given should not be done in capital letters for it is more than 6 words as it slows down reading speed
• Maybe the word “stage” can be change to red to bring emphasizes to the idea what this slide is trying to being across
• Static display of the cycle using transition can be used to better re-enforcing the stages. (e.g. where it starts, end and how each stage look like)

Slide 4

Strengths

• The font size is big enough for the whole class to read it and the line spacing is just right.
• The graphic (eggs) used is simple and is related to the text.
• Shortcut to various stages of the frog is available at the bottom of the slide enable easy access to them.

Areas of improvement

• The transitional effect of the text is inappropriate, for it causes distraction and can be quite irritating as the class have to wait for each word to appear one by one.
• The bottom left animated graphic may be more a distraction than a support to the lesson.

Slide 5

Strengths

• There is a informal balance in the layout of this slide
• The suggested way of transition can be: the picture that match the stage will appear together and not displaying all the pictures first then the text of each stage appear.
• The line spacing is just right for easy reading.
• The transitional effect of the appearance of the text is good as it appear by chucks which match the different stages of a frog
• The graphics are simple and thus might serve better visual aids compare to complicated pictures.

Areas of improvement

• The font size is slightly too small and thus can’t be seen too clearly at the back of the room
• The number of lines in this slide is too many (more than 8 lines)

Slide 6

Strengths

• Appropriate graphic is being use, simple and easy to relate to the context.
• The font size is appropriate as it’s big enough for the class to read especially those at the back of the room.
• Shortcut to various stages of the frog is available at the bottom of the slide enable easy access to them.

Areas of improvement

• The transitional effect of the text is inappropriate, for it cause distraction and it’s a bit irritating to have to wait for each word to appear.