Arrange Slide Elements with Care
By carefully arranging your slide elements, you can help your audience process the information more easily—and that, as we’ve discussed, frees up people to hear what you’re saying.
Follow these five design principles when arranging elements to simplify your slides.
Flow
Placement governs flow—that is, how the eye travels across a space. You can direct people’s eyes to certain areas of a slide and help your audience get to the important points quickly. People should be able to move their eyes across your slide in one back-and-forth motion and be done processing the information.
In figure 5-8, your eye takes in the cluster of grapes, then moves to the text, then focuses on one individual grape.
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