WK10 Blog Tone and Color

Ovente 1.79- qt. Cord-Free Brushed Electric Kettle from the website WayFair.com.

How TONE is interacting
this electric kettle uses tone to help the user understand how to use it, the darkest tone on this object is the black handle, which is the only place you should grab the kettle. this design plays off thermal imaging as the lightest tones the main vessel and then the metallic grey would indicate the hottest areas and the darker the color the area is.

How COLOR is operating
This electrical kettle came in different colors, blue, red, pink and white. i liked the pink color because it is a soft color compared to blue and red but not as bland as white. the design of the kettle uses the light pink to accentuate the water indicator. this makes it not only visually grasping as well as clear and understandable.


How COLOR is interacting
The colors on this kettle create clear divisions, the strongest contrast of color is the black handle and the pink vessel, because of the strong contrast we naturally focus on that area which in the case of an electric kettle the ony place you should touch when operation it.

Visual thinking

 in this puzzle the objective is to find the total number of triangles that the cat is comprised of. my friend went with the approach of out lining the triangles, but that got a little confusing for her. i went with marking each triangle with a 1 and added another if the triangle was used twice, such as the ones in the cats tail.

This puzzle was a lot harder, my friend again tried to draw outlines of stars but found out quickly that there was no apparent star. i went with shading in triangles that i thought would make a star but i really count not find the star. but than we both started to think that the star would be on its side or in some other orientation that was not the same as indicated. focusing more on vertical lines instead of diagonal lines we found the star in the bottom left corner. this one was hard because of the miss leading instructioms.

Top-Down Visual Processing

I choose a classic and nostalgic image to me, the ever recognizable Chutes & Ladders board game.

I Believe that this is a perfect image that implements the Top-Down Visual Processing we all use on a daily basses. we have been trained to read things from top left to bottom right, this board game utilizes that fact to its advantage, by marking the final goal to the top right to draw your attention to where you need to end up and/or how to win. when looking at the board we easily neglect to notice or pay attention to the starting location which is an important factor to the game. this board game also utilizes our ability to recognize color differences as the chutes are colored red which makes them pop out comparatively to the background and ladders. emphasizing the chutes also makes the players to also follow the curvy chutes as they cross the board.  by using red the designers drew from the notion that red means a warning or a "don't", like stop lights, stop signs, warning labels and etc. another trip that the designer of this board game implemented was segmenting the board into a grid system, making use focus on each square as we move our eyes across the board.
this board game utilizes many basic ideas and associations that are engrained into our society and our collective notions.