November 3rd, 2008 by Robin Green
Uploading your courseware system to Coggno, you’ll have the option to brand your content with your own logo and color scheme. Creating a unified and interesting theme will attract your learners’ attention and aid them in their learning process.
Your user interface design should give your courseware system a unique look that’s easy to navigate and read. It might be a 3D learning environment, a 2D animated interface, or a professional business-style interface. As always, it’s essential to consider your audience.
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November 3rd, 2008 by Robin Green
If you’re still designing a logo, you might also be figuring out the colors you want to use for your courseware system. As with logo design, it’s important to choose colors to give your courseware a unique look and feel while catering to your audience. But in general, a simple color palette with balanced colors is ideal.
If children are your audience, help them through the courseware system, using bright colors to attract their eyes to specific parts of your course content. For example, you might make each course section a different color. Though adults certainly benefit from color coding too, children require the more prolific use of colors.
Be sure to keep the background color of the main content area in white or a light, (think pastel or light shades) unimposing color to make it easy on the eyes. Put yourself in the mind of your courseware system audience, and you’ll find choosing and manipulating colors simple.
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October 31st, 2008 by Robin Green
It’s best, generally, to keep your courseware system logo simple. You want something bold, memorable, describable, and easy on the eye. If scalability is an issue, keeping the logo simple will also help with that.
Consider your course content and target audience. It might be educational content, business content, or a training course. Who will be using your courseware? If the answer is children, you can make your logo more colorful and playful. If the course is meant for medical students, take that into consideration.
Designing a courseware system logo involves balancing two disparate concepts. The logo should reflect not only innovation but also tradition and constancy–a fine line to walk. Your logo should represent a system that potential students can place their trust in.
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October 31st, 2008 by Robin Green
Branding your courseware system with a logo will give your course its own flare and personality. But how do you go about designing a logo that is as unique as your courseware system?
The first thing you’ll need to do is just start brainstorming like crazy. Use lots of paper, sketching and writing everything out by hand. Large design companies use this strategy, sketching pages and pages of logo ideas before even going near a computer. Sketching is the best way to quickly create and visualize your courseware system’s logo. Using the computer right away will waste time and slow you down.
Brainstorm concepts, using all means possible–research images on Google, write down keywords and ideas, do mind mapping, take a look at competitors’ logos. Don’t scratch any concept or idea until at least the next day, and be sure to run them by people whose opinions you trust.
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October 31st, 2008 by Robin Green
When designing a logo for your courseware system, you’ll want to first understand the history, nature, definition and function of logos. Your logo is the image embodying your courseware system, representing its content and fostering immediate customer recognition. Logos can be a name (logotype), an icon, sign or emblem (ideograms). Most logos are a combination of the two. Ideograms are sometimes recognizable without a name, like the McDonald’s arc, or the Red Cross. Ideograms are especially useful for logos of organizations that are being marketed in different alphabets, but logotypes can also be designed in a way that is instantly recognizable in different languages.
Though some companies and organizations hire a graphic designer to design their logo for them, it’s not necessary to do so. Since you’ve already designed an entire courseware system, why not add your personal touch by designing your own logo?
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