7 Tips For Designing Clear and Visually Appealing Informative Posters

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Imagine if I designed my post such that everything reads like this. The entire post is just a massive block of text with no spacing. And I had no regard for readability. And I didn't summarise at the top of the article like I've been doing recently. Thank you for reading. I'm surprised anyone reads my stuff. It's fascinating to see reactions hit my inbox. ... Recently, I've had another run-in with having to create presentation slides with a couple of other individuals. Each of them gave me a wall of text to work with. And ultra-complicated jargon wording that a layperson cannot understand, when the target audience is a layperson audience. Those are not presentation slides. We are not writing a report or essay, and then rotating them 90 degrees onto a horizontal slides, and then calling it a day. Presentation slides should just cover the main points, and be a support tool for your presentation. You are the presenter, not the slides themselves. The walls of text, or endless bullet points, can often be shortened significantly or turned into a graphic of sorts. Whether a flow chart, separate lists, etc. Anything shorter,