What are the best ways to ensure your content is visually appealing and easy to read?

Create a clear hierarchy with headings to guide readers through your content, and use whitespace to break text into manageable sections, enhancing readability.

Pour avoir des contenus attrayants, en tant que créateur de contenu, je joue beaucoup sur le titre. Un titre accrocheur permet au public de s'intéresser à votre contenu.

Organize your content in a way that follows a logical sequence. Readers should easily understand the progression of information. Ensure a consistent format for headings, subheadings, paragraphs, and other elements throughout your content. Consistency aids in readability. Use bullet points or numbered lists to present information in a structured and easy-to-follow manner. This improves scanability. Clearly define the hierarchy of information with appropriate heading and subheading styles. This helps readers quickly navigate and understand the structure of your content. Avoid clutter by providing enough spacing between paragraphs, images, and other elements. Whitespace helps improve readability and overall aesthetics.

Select fonts that are easy to read and use a color scheme that contrasts well without straining the eyes, ensuring your content is accessible to all users.

Selecting font and colour scheme(s) to use in the material is an important factor. Organisational branding may control at least certain aspects of your choice(s) here. Remember your audience will include people with visual disabilities. So, you need to ensure your choice of: - Font typeface. - Font size. - Colours used (e.g. applied to text, in graphs, etc.) - Document/ information layout (so it is easy to read/ follow), etc. are taken into account. Utilising consistent formatting, layouts, document structure, where possible. Will also help to ensure a more professional finish and if applicable, brand alignment.

Considering inclusivity and accessibility is crucial when using color in design, especially for users with color blindness. These users may face challenges when relying exclusively on color to convey information, as colors can be difficult to distinguish. To tackle this: ? Combine color with shapes, patterns, textures, icons, and text labels to create visual cues. ? Make sure there is a high contrast between elements to ensure readability. ? Avoid instructions that depend on color. Add text labels or icons to elements that are already colored. ? Identify and address issues by testing with color blindness simulators. By including color blindness in design, you can create information that is more inclusive and accessible to all users.

Incorporate high-quality, relevant visuals that complement your text, using captions or brief descriptions to provide context and enhance engagement.

Some thought/ care needs to be applied when including images and video's in your documentation, etc. This is because the images, etc., must: - Be relevant to the topic being covered at that point. - Support the information contained in the document, etc. - No be intrusive. As then it can become a distraction, etc. Remember to consider the position and size of the image, etc., that you incorporate into your documentation/ presentation, etc.

If you use table from Excel, don't copy/paste the table, but add a screenshot of the table. This ensure your data stay the same in the presentation/document, even if you continue to work on the data analysis

Listing tables in documents, etc,. is a frequent requirement. Tables however need to be structured and planned to some degree. For example: - Tables should have headers defined at the top of each page they are located on. - Tables need to have an appropriate length for the document/ presentation, etc., they are located in. That is you do not want a 3+ page table in the body of your document/ presentation. If the table is longer than say 3 pages, then provide the full table as an appendix and just summarise the table in the body of the document, etc. - Use appropriate column headings. - Be careful around any colour / colour combination used in the table. - Remember to keep the table simple, with no extraneous information, etc.

Writing short sentences is beneficial. Making those sentences simple, however, may be more complicated. For example, due to the technical nature of the topic being covered. Care should also be taken with respect to the use of abbreviations. As audience members may not be able to understand them. So, if you use abbreviations in your documentation, etc., make sure that a definition of each abbreviation is available, either in the documentation, or in a glossary (within/ linked to the document), etc.

Visually appealing content that is easy to read usually means that it's scannable. Scannable content has: -- Short paragraphs. -- Short sentences. -- Lots of headings and subheads.

I read a good tip the other day: Edit your content while ON a mobile device. I realize this might not be doable in many cases, but the suggestion was on point. Whenever you've got a final draft, read it on a mobile device and see how it looks. Keep in mind that when you write website content, you can have different versions for mobile devices and desktops. Work closely with the designer to ensure everything looks and reads well across all devices.

Pour créer des infographies sur Linkedin, voici mon process pour les rendre facile à lire : ? Utilisez 2 couleurs principales. ? Associées à votre image de marque. ? Pensez mobilité avec des formats verticaux ? Format A4 par exemple. ?Apportez du relief très facilement. ? Ombre, éléments 3D ... ? Proposez plusieurs entrées ? Divisez votre page en 3 ou 4 points importants. ?Utilisez des typographies simples et lisibles. ? Arial, Barlow, Poppins ... ?Signez toujours vos visuels. ? Pour votre image et les partages éventuels.

Remember, different types of documentation require different types of approach to their production. For example, reports verses user guides. The rules outlined in this topic however can be applied to virtually every document a technical author produces. These can also be applied, at least to some degree, to other media types the technical author may need to cover, e.g. presentations, web pages, videos, etc. Though different constraints, e.g. length of tables, etc., may apply.

- Conteúdo deve ser escaneável (frases e parágrafos curtos; - Seguir a arquitetura das informa??es (H1, H2, H3 etc); - Utilizar listas numéricas e bullet points; - Destacar informa??es importantes em negrito; - Utilizar imagens, tabelas e gráficos para "quebrar o texto" e deixar o design mais leve