Simple Graphic Tips

A well done course with all the proper assignments, perfect assessment, interesting content its a total failure without simple graphic spruce up to make it good enough for the user. Lets look at simple graphic tips to spruce up our online content.

Text:

Most simple fact that most of the content is written, use a simple to understand non-fancy font that is kept same throughout the course. I would personally recommend anything from sans serif family like Arial, Calibri, Tahoma etc.

Try not to use too small or too big font and don,t over do bolding, italics or underline. Avoid big titles, they kill the content. try to bring a normal font size title.

Color:

Use neutral colors for background and avoid dark, bright and loud colors in the background. Create a color scheme for you course and stick to it as you'll stick to the fonts.

Images/ Pictures:

Pictures can be elemental in conveying your content to the user but then it's elementary to use pictures that are non-distracting. Try to use pictures which speak of the subject they're used for. If we have to picture a surgical tool try to picture it in a box or its compartment unless its animated. This will take user attention on the tool rather than its background or the person holding the tool in the image.

And finally image size should be such that it is balanced with the content, try and give half the screen to image and rest half to the text to keep the balance.

Graphs/ Diagrams:

Graphs and diagrams help to take across a point or statistic/ data to the user in a visually attractive way. Use relevant graphs and diagrams wherever possible but neither try to cram up lot of information in a small graph nor too little information in bloated graph. Try to achieve a balance in you representation. If needed merge or divide the graph and information for simplicity of understanding.


Take away:

Finally, great content presented with consistent colors, font and related graphs and images in right context will not only make course easy to understand but increase its appeal to the user.