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101 UX Principles – 2nd edition - Second Edition
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101 UX Principles – 2nd edition - Second Edition

by Will Grant
May 2022
Beginner
454 pages
4h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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#10

Use Type Size and Weight to Depict an Information Hierarchy

This is a simple, but effective, method for organizing your views and making them instantly understandable for a wide range of users. Let’s look at an example of how not to do this in an imagined “Calendar” app user interface:

Figure 10.1: This example shows all the type in the pop-over at the same size and weight

Simply by altering the type size by a noticeable factor, we can show the user the most relevant information first:

Figure 10.2: This example shows how using different type ...

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ISBN: 9781803234885