Graphics Programs Reference
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extraneous information from the slides improves the clarity. The samples here are very
simple, but you can apply the general idea to more complex slides as well. Just be clear
in your own mind where you want people to go first (second, third, etc.) when the visual is
shown.
Not only does the slide at left have too much text for a live talk, it's not clear where the eye is supposed to go
first. We may notice the pictures, but they are very small. Should we look at the graph first? Usually, the text at
the top is the most important, but why is it so weak? In the text on the right, our eyes go to the jogger and then
quickly to the key point in text.
The slide at left has too many colors—our eyes bounce around from one colorful column to the next. What's the
key point of the slide? Hard to tell. In the slide at right, our eyes go to the large text first and then the red column
(or vice versa) and then we look at the other columns.
