In the week5 I learned the knowledge of how to make a good PowerPoints and infographic. Before I learned this content, I always made a mess of PowerPoint but couldn’t find the problem. After learning this week’s content, I found that I lost a lot of principles when doing PPT in the past. I also learned how to create my infographic in Canva. Infographics are a powerful tool for organizing and presenting information and telling a story. We can always see all kinds of infographics in our daily life, which can increase people’s interest in reading and watching. Canva is a website that helps people make infographics, it allows me to create my infographics more easily.

Infographics

I made a infographic of how to improve focus, the reason is that when I study, sometimes it is difficult to concentrate, it may be interrupted by some trivial matters or not managing time well, etc., I have been trying to solve this problem and make my study more efficient. This is my infographic.

Infographic of Four ways to improve your focus

Which design principles did you use to create your infographic in Canva? Which elements of a ‘good infographic’ were you able to incorporate? What other principles did you consider?

I think many principles are very useful, I used “Limit your color palette”, “Keep imagery simple” and “White space is a good thing” on my infographic. I think an infographic should not have too complicated color combination, which will make it look confusing, so I choose to use several lighter colors to make it more comfortable to read. Too complex images will affect the focus of the infographic, and people will pay more attention to the images rather than the content, so I chose to use a few simple and content-related images. I think “White space is a good thing” is the best idea, if an infographic is completely filled with various colors and content without any white space, it makes me feel a little disinterested, so I put lots of white space on my infographic. I think it also similar with “Leave lots of negative space”.

Lesson Design

For the design class, I designed a plan for a dessert making class. This is my lesson design planning template.

Dessert making class design