Size and location

When you’re laying out items on your grid, here are some tips for size and positioning.

Make important things big, even if that means making them out of scale. The illustration opposite is similar to one featured in one of the first books on interface design I read—Apple’s HyperCard Stack Design Guidelines. If you’re designing a sports news website, then making the golf ball as large as the soccer ball may not be accurate, but the alternative would be to make it look as though the Masters was less important than MLS. Sports fans can debate that, but sports editors would prefer to give them equal prominence.