Digital Planner Design Mastery
Design a coherent planner product line with a defensible type system, palette, grid and cover system, and critique their own work against specific criteria rather than feel.
What you leave able to do.
By the end of Digital Planner Design Mastery you will be able to design a coherent planner product line with a defensible type system, palette, grid and cover system, and critique their own work against specific criteria rather than feel.
Who this is for.
- Someone who can already build a working digital planner and wants it to look like a professional product rather than a competent first attempt
Who it’s not for: anyone who has not yet built and exported a working hyperlinked planner. Start with Digital Planner Academy®.
Prerequisite: Digital Planner Academy®, or equivalent experience building and exporting a hyperlinked planner.
This course is set up with Digital Planner Academy® as its prerequisite, so its lessons unlock once Digital Planner Academy® is completed in your account.
What’s inside.
8 modules, 29 lessons. Self-paced, written lessons, plus the course workbook (PDF).
Why Most Planners Look Amateur
- The four tells
- Designing for a surface that gets written on
- Restraint as a positioning decision
A Type System
- Choosing a pair that works at planner sizes
- Building a type scale
- Labels, uppercase and letter-spacing
- Numerals in grids
Colour
- Building a palette from a small set
- Contrast you can verify
- Surviving inversion and greyscale
- Colour across a product line
Grid and Spacing
- A column grid for planner pages
- A spacing scale
- Alignment and optical adjustment
- Designing the empty state
Cover Systems
- Designing a system, not a cover
- Type-led covers
- Motif-led covers
- Covers as marketing images
Elements and Stickers
- Designing stickers that match the planner
- Technical requirements
- Icons and functional marks
Building a Line
- What makes products siblings
- Planning the range
- Naming and file conventions
- Maintaining the system over time
Critique
- Critiquing your own work against criteria
- Reading other planners usefully
- Knowing when it is finished
What’s included.
- Online course: 8 modules, 29 written lessons
- Digital Planner Design Mastery Workbook (PDF download)
- Prerequisite: Digital Planner Academy®, or equivalent experience building and exporting a hyperlinked planner
- Secure checkout; an account is created at checkout so the course and workbook stay in My Account
Frequently asked.
Digital Planner Design Mastery
Design a coherent planner product line with a defensible type system, palette, grid and cover system, and critique their own work against specific criteria rather than feel.