ABSTRACT
This chapter describes techniques coming from traditional visual design and discusses them in the context of user interface design. Visual design is the arrangement of information items in such a way that resulting product is visually attractive, perceptive, and easily understandable. Visual design issues are raised in many domains of human activity such as user interface design, documentation development, presentation design, and graphic layout. This layout consists of interaction objects and interactive objects. Interaction objects (IO), also called widgets or controls, encompass static objects and dynamic objects. Interactive objects cover every kind of object that a multimedia user interface could display: static icons, drawings, pictures, images, sketches, video sequences, graphics and so forth. A visual technique relies on commonly accepted visual principles to suggest the arrangement of the layout frame components which can be grouped into five categories: Physical techniques, Composition techniques, Association and dissociation techniques, Ordering techniques, Photographic techniques. These techniques are applied for layout of traditional applications.
