Mike’s Roommate SignGoal: offer a quick and simple checklist to help residents address minor roommate disputes. This is

just the tip of the conflict mediation icebergAudience: Residents who have just moved in with roommate,

most effective with the first 6 weeks of living together.Message: Simple tips/steps to start addressing a

dispute, meant to suggest there is no secret, and it’s not about the perfect roommate match, just some common sense and understanding

Roommate

Conflict

Tools to address

conflict

Starting Point

0First attempt was mostly based on spacing and offering information

0Looking back I can see a lack of conscious design principals

Second Round

0Here I am trying to get rid of clutter while at the same time creating a sense of flow

0Trying to play with text, subtext, and image as information

Moving Along

0At this point I still hadn’t figured out that the grayed out image just was not working.

0Rather than letting the text stand out, it was even more of a distraction.

0Playing with spacing and alignment was fun and started to open things up.

0Landscape formatting seemed to fit better as well

Progress

Full Color… at last

0Utilizing the image’s full color really helped the sign pop and grab attention.

0Alignment near the edges, crowds things and makes the sign looked more cramped than it is

More Color Fun… POW!

Playing with Type and alignments

0 In these slides I played with color, formatting, and type face

0 I wanted to see what things would look like if a made a very bright sign. Seemed to work in some ways, maybe not in every way

0Making the font very big, changing up the wording, and messing with my alignment was helping me break out a bit.

At Last…

In the end…

0 I chose to mellow things out a bit0 I used the college’s school colors, gray scaled the

photo, changed up the pro-nouns, and took a face out of the equation

0Here I wanted the audience to take the personality out of the picture and focus on the steps (literally/figuratively)

0 I feel like this sign grabs to viewer, but hopefully does not overwhelm