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Webinar: The Principles Behind Designing Visual Hierarchy

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During the webinar, Stacey also talked about the different scan patterns that people’s eyes take when they’re skimming a website or article to decide if they want to read it or not. As she closed out the webinar, Stacey reminded us “if everything is important, nothing is important.”

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Get Well-rounded with Storyline Templates

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When most people look at a piece of visual design, their eyes naturally start at the top left and scan until they get to the bottom right. With vibrant greens, a rippling pattern of repeating circles, and reflective surfaces, this template is practically bouncing with energy.

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5 Ways to KISS Your eLearning

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People scan courses. We tend to scan everything that we see first before actually digging in and reading the content. Just make sure that they are well explained and offer a glossary for reference. Maybe even a nice printable handout to keep at their desk.). Images/Videos Are Better Than Text.

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Storyboarding

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Remember, learners typically only scan the on-screen text. Most learners only scan over the text so your graphics need to help tell the story. Here are a few things to consider when building your storyboard: On-Screen text. What information is best presented as on-screen text? How much is too much? Audio Scripting. Graphics/Images.

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Smaller Chunks are Easier to Digest

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So, the challenge becomes, “how do we make them scan the information that we want them to learn?”. Everyone will scan bullets. Our minds suddenly turn off and we close the documents or quickly navigate to another page. The truth is that learners usually don’t thoroughly read online content. Well, the answer is chunking.

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Watch Your Text!

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Here’s the secret that nobody wants to admit…online learners don’t read, they scan! Let’s admit it, most of our users are scanning our pages and seeing what stands out. If they are just scanning our text then we need to figure out how to help them understand our content. Learners can easily scan a list.

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eLearning Must Look Good

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When we create eLearning we should remember that people don’t read…they scan! We quickly scan a page to see if there is any information that interests us. He basically flipped quickly through the pages and stopped occasionally on a pretty picture and usually started flipping again. We all do it.

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