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Clean Up Your Mess
ResearchEd Scotland
Clean Up Your Mess
Influences

Mistakes

So what?

Clean Up
Influences
Terry and Gerry
Massimo Vignelli
The life of a
designer is
a life of fight
against the
ugliness.
Mistakes
Clutter
What should I
focus on?
By now you have started to read the text to yourself and as
a result of this, will pay little to no attention to what I am
actually saying.

Worse still, if all I do is start to read this out you’ll be getting
bored and will want to move on. By this stage you’ve
finished reading it, and will now fidget, check your phone
etc.

Despite the fact that we all know this to be the case, we still
persist with text-heavy slides that are read out to the
audience.
Now imagine what it’s
like for a poor reader.
Slow Animations
Really
Really
Really
Bug your audience.
Just because you can
use an animation does
not mean that you
have to.
So What?
Dieter Rams
There is no longer
room for irrelevant
things. We have no
longer got the
resources. Irrelevance
is out.
This is the first line.
This is the second.
This is the third.
Waste of time
Distracts pupils
Adds to cognitive load
Clean Up
You
don’t
need
everything
on
the
one
slide.
Images can have
more impact.
The right image can
have even more impact.
We can even determine
where the audience will
look.
https://tinyurl.com/y2cbsvop
Tips
purple blue green
yellow red red
purple green yellow
blue blue yellow
green red purple
yellow blue green
red purple
purple blue green
yellow red red
purple green yellow
blue blue yellow
green red purple
yellow blue green
red purple
https://www.tacpro.com.au/tactile-colour-contrast
Alignment
First
By now you have started to
read the text to yourself and
as a result of this, will pay
little to no attention to what I
am actually saying.

Second
Worse still, if all I do is start
to read this out you’ll be
getting bored and will want
to move on. By this stage
you’ve finished reading it,
and will now fidget, check
your phone etc.

Third
Despite the fact that we all
know this to be the case, we
still persist with text-heavy
slides that are read out to
the audience.
First
By now you have started to
read the text to yourself and
as a result of this, will pay
little to no attention to what I
am actually saying.

Second
Worse still, if all I do is start
to read this out you’ll be
getting bored and will want
to move on. By this stage
you’ve finished reading it,
and will now fidget, check
your phone etc.
Third
Despite the fact that we all
know this to be the case, we
still persist with text-heavy
slides that are read out to
the audience.
Content
Slide text gets read.
It’s boring.
You do it anyway.
Stop it.
Be more Gerry
Be less Terry
Gayle Gorman added: “The reason for saying thank you
could be for a number of reasons, from helping your child
settle in, last year’s class teacher, helping you though a
difficult time or for helping you when you were struggling.
But it is important that we take time to recognise the hard
work of teachers across Scotland and I would encourage
people to get involved in this campaign to let teachers know
just how much they are appreciated.”
https://education.gov.scot/news-and-events/news/thank-a-teacher-campaign-launched-in-scotland
Fonts
I. BuryEm
Funeral
Services
Bozo!
Children’s
Party Clown
for Hire
30 pt minimum
80 pt
140 pt
Change the
s p a c i n g
for effect
FLICK
It’s not more
readable.
No thanks for visiting
COMIC SANS
Time to leave it behind
Use a grid.
Help?
visualmess.com
@bobbylack
Fight against
the ugliness.
Thank you.
@robfmac
robfmac.com

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