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Design basics study guide: one topic like colour, layout or typography, with worked examples and exercises

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Design basics study guide: one topic like colour, layout or typography, with worked examples and exercises

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Example for the Standard package

Study guide: solving linear equations, for students aged 13–14

The one rule

An equation is a balance. Whatever you do to one side, you do to the other, and the balance stays level. The goal is to get x alone on one side.

Worked example 3: the unknown on both sides

Solve 5x − 4 = 2x + 11.

  1. Move the x terms to one side: take 2x from both sides. 5x − 2x − 4 = 11, so 3x − 4 = 11.
  2. Move the numbers to the other side: add 4 to both sides. 3x = 15.
  3. Divide both sides by 3. x = 5.
  4. Check: 5 × 5 − 4 = 21 and 2 × 5 + 11 = 21. Both sides match.

Common mistake

In 3(x + 2) = 18, many students write 3x + 2 = 18. The 3 multiplies everything in the brackets: 3x + 6 = 18, so x = 4.

Exercises 7–10

  1. 4x + 3 = x + 18
  2. 2(x − 5) = 14
  3. 7 − x = 3x − 9
  4. 3(2x + 1) = 4x + 15

Answers: 7. x = 5 · 8. x = 12 · 9. x = 4 · 10. x = 6

Files: PDF and Word. The guide is for learning: we do not do homework or tests to be handed in.

Client: a parent whose daughter gets lost when an equation has brackets or the unknown on both sides. Task: a guide at middle school level that starts from the basics and builds up to those two cases. Standard package: up to 8 pages, 6 worked examples, 20 exercises with answers and a summary sheet. Excerpt below.

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About this service

Good layouts follow a few principles that can be learned: contrast, alignment, repetition, proximity, hierarchy and balance. This guide takes one topic at your level, such as the principles of composition, colour theory, typography, grids or visual hierarchy, and explains it in plain words with everyday examples like posters, menus and web pages. Worked examples take a layout described in words and improve it step by step, naming the principle behind each change, and exercises with answers let the learner practise. Tell us the topic, the level and what the learner wants to make. You get PDF and Word files; Premium adds a test and an answer key. It is a text guide with no picture examples. We don't make logos, layouts or course projects, and we don't review the learner's work.

What is included

  • What you getA PDF and Word guide on one design topic: the principles in plain words, everyday examples, layouts improved step by step in words, common mistakes and exercises with answers. From Standard, also a one-page sheet of principles and a layout checklist; in Premium, a self-check test of 20 questions and a separate answer key with short explanations.
  • Principles explainedContrast, alignment, hierarchy and balance in plain words
  • Colour and typeHow to pick colours and fonts that work together
  • Layout fixesBefore-and-after examples described step by step
  • Common mistakesToo many fonts, weak contrast, crowded pages
  • Exercises with answersSpot the problem, name the principle, suggest the fix

How it works

  1. 1
    TopicYou name the topic, the level and the goal
  2. 2
    WritingWe explain the principles, work the examples and write the exercises
  3. 3
    DeliveryYou get the guide in PDF and Word on the order page
  4. 4
    PracticeYou try it in your own tool and ask for changes within your package

What we need from you

The design topic (for example, colour contrast, choosing and pairing fonts, a grid for a web page or a poster layout), the learner's level (school, an art or college course, or a beginner making materials for their own small business), what they want to make, the tools they use if any (Canva, Figma or a word processor), what they find hard, the language and how the guide will be used. You may attach a syllabus or notes as Word or PDF files, up to 3. We don't review or make layouts.

We will ask you:

  • Which design topic?
  • Level and goal
  • Which tool do you use?
  • What is hard, and the language?

Compare packages

BasicOne topic, up to 4 pages$9StandardUp to 8 pages with a summary sheet$17PremiumUp to 15 pages with a test$33
Deadline1 day2 days3 days
Revisions123
Pagesup to 4up to 8up to 15
Worked examples3610
Exercises with answers102035
Summary sheetNoYesYes
Test and answer keyNoNoYes, 20 questions
SubjectDesign basicsDesign basicsDesign basics
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Questions and answers

Will you make my logo or poster?

No. The guide teaches the principles so the learner can make their own. We don't create logos, layouts or course projects to be handed in as the learner's own work.

Does it teach a particular program?

No, it teaches principles that work in any tool. We may say where a setting usually sits, but it isn't a software manual.

Are picture examples included?

No. Examples are described in words, with tables of colours and font sizes where they help. Try them in your own tool as you read.

Will it match my course?

We follow the course and terms you name, but schools teach these principles with different names, so check the guide against yours.

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