We explain what the layout is, what its meaning is and the different areas in which this distribution scheme can be used.
What is the layout?
When we talk about layout (a loan from English), layout or layout, we refer to the distribution scheme of elements within a format or design. This term applies to various areas, such as technology, administration or graphic design, and is usually equivalent to “plan” or “organization.”
Although there is no specific and unique thing to refer to as layoutgenerally with this term refers to prior planning (also “setting“, from English) that is made of a thing or a project, so that its parameters can be measured, monitored or modified in time.
Thus, a Web programmer who works for a company first sends his employers a layout that exposes the visual and computer framework, so that it can operate as a sketch and serve to develop multiple Web pages.
In short, the layout is the prior presentation of the provision of information for a project which is surrendered to its directors before, during or about to finish the work.
The degree of complexity in its preparation will be proportional to the progress in the definition of the project: initially just a few sketches and sketches, but later a much more elaborate and established proposal.
See also: Packaging
Layout of a company
In marketing or marketing matters, we speak of layout to refer to placement of products or services in a store or market that is, to its strategic organization to minimize labor consumption and guarantee the correct display of each product.
The marketing-layout pursues the objective of maximizing sales per square meter grouping or isolating them based on the consumption criteria that characterize a given market. For example, when it comes to shelving, you usually choose between two types of layout: rectangular or angular.
industrial layout
In industrial matters the layout usually has to do with supply chain and warehouse layout among other issues that require prior logistical planning.
Thus, the optimization of the processes of transferring raw materials or processed merchandise is pursued, to maximize the speed of preparation and reduce effort.
This is because both in warehouses and distribution centers Space is finite and requires strategic planning to achieve a rapid flow of materials, in the first case, or an optimization of the manufacturing process. picking (selection) in the second.
Layout in graphic design
All graphic design presents a visual framework, a minimum order of assignment and distribution of graphic elements in the given space (a sheet, a monitor, etc.), and which often determines logical, causal or interpretation relationships of the message.
For this reason, the development of advertising campaigns, web pages or flyers, for example, usually has a previous stage of preparing sketches and graphic models. This is known in graphic design as layout.
This stage is key to understanding what the client asks for and to initially show a possible framework of shapes, colors and spaces in the product, before even really starting to produce it. There are usually several stages of layout before risking producing an original design.
