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Course 6: Layouts, Grids, Smart Layouts and Prototyping: Vertical rhythm for texts and spacing

By Samuel Hermoso (Elastic Heads) , UX-UI Designer

UX-UI Designer. Madrid, Spain.
Joined August 2014
Domestika Basics Course 6 of 7
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About the video: Vertical rhythm for texts and spacing

Overview

“In this lesson we are going to create a horizontal layout . It is a restriction that will allow working with element heights multiples of 8 to preserve a better reading rate and make it much faster to make decisions about where to place elements and how much space to leave between them. We will do an exercise with some cards and you will see the advantages of using this type of layouts .”

In this video lesson Samuel Hermoso (Elastic Heads) addresses the topic: Vertical rhythm for texts and spacing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 6: Layouts, Grids, Smart Layouts and Prototyping. Create your first navigable prototype with Sketch.

Partial transcription of the video

“INTRODUCTION TO SKETCH COURSE 6 LESSON 4 Vertical rhythm for texts In this lesson we will see how to create a layout to organize text vertically and create a consistent rhythm. You will see that when you have everything well organized, it works much faster. We see it. We will introduce one more variable in the layout. These will be the rows. So far we have made columns. With the rows we will achieve a consistency and a vertical rhythm in the elements that we will create or redesign. Usually certain problems arise when it comes to defining spaces between elements. For example, this one has 2...”

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Course summary for: Course 6: Layouts, Grids, Smart Layouts and Prototyping

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Samuel Hermoso (Elastic Heads)

Samuel Hermoso (Elastic Heads)
By Samuel Hermoso (Elastic Heads)

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UX-UI Designer

Samuel Hermoso has over 20 years of experience working in consulting and digital product design. After working with different studios and agencies, he created the Elastic Heads studio, in Madrid (Spain), where he helps people, companies, and startups adapt to the new changes in the digital world and improve their digital products.

Samuel is also dedicated to teaching, he is a professor of product design, user experience and methodologies, and interactive design tools in schools such as: Ironhack, Mr. Marcel School, IED, Neoland and the European University.


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Course 6: Layouts, Grids, Smart Layouts and Prototyping

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