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Cross-Cultural Emotion and Symbolic Meanings of Color

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Photo by Jon Tyson on  Unsplash The colour is an inseparable part of our everyday lives and its presence is evident in everything that we perceive. It is widely recognized that colours have also a strong impact on our emotions and feelings. The colours are found to trigger certain psychological, physical, biological and metabolic reactions within humans. The colour is the fundamental building block of visual symbols and serves as a communication method for humans. “ Sunset is still my favorite color and rainbow is second .” — Mattie Stepanek Colour is a phenomenon of light and based on different ranges of wavelengths. When the ray of light bends we can see a spectrum of colors, a rainbow. A rainbow and all the colors within it is a beautiful sight as quoted by Mattie Stepanek, a child poet. However, colour may generate another level of meaning in the mind. The colour symbolism arises from cultural, mythical, historical, religious, political, and linguistic associations. The symbolic m

Psychology of Design- Principles

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  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/362962051202312841/ F irst and foremost, We should have an understanding of what users want versus need before they ever encounter our designs. Therefore, psychological theories help to tackle effective designs. Every designer needs to learn about the fundamental of psychology. Because Psychology helps to create the design which will make users perform the actions they are expected. What Is Psychology? “Psychology” is a Greek word of the psyche. psychology, like much of science, is descriptive. However, psychologist define “Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behaviour of humans” Since Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology lab for the study of human behaviour in 1879 Leipzig, Germany, And psychologists study about various aspects of human behaviours such as personality, social culture, language, and brain functions. There have described 6 main approaches in psychology. Psychodynamic, cognitive, humanistic, behaviourism, bio-psychologi

Atomic Design -Methodology

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What Is Atomic design? Atomic Design by Brad Frost is the one of methodology that can accelerate the process of creating modular designs. He introduced the concept of atomic design about 5 years ago. As the craft of web design continues to evolve, We’re recognizing the need to develop thoughtful design systems, rather than creating simple collections of web pages. Atomic design is a methodology for creating design systems. — Brad Frost — Brad Frost and Dave Olsen, the guys behind the according to site patternlab.io , call it —  “Build systems, not pages.” — What is that Building systems, not pages? In my word, Build systems mean that not design or develop the front-end full pages. It’s like small element like buttons. And all small components combine to a large unit like a label, box, table, forms. The final full pages are then just a combination of these units.it is the idea of the building system. Now we enter the Atomic design Modules. That methodology has five distinct stages and