Lessons
Why Design Matters
05:50 2Design Vs. Aesthetic
06:27 3Impact Of Design
07:01 4The Design Process: Understand Your Audience
09:17 5The Design Process: Understand Your Content
05:21 6Design Principle: Alignment, Grids, And Spacing
05:47 7Design Principles: Contrast
02:55 8Design Principles: Repetition
03:20Design Principle: Hierarchy & Proximity
05:37 10Principle Scale And Balance
02:48 11Design Principles: Typography
04:29 12Design Principles: White Space
01:11 13Design Principles: Color
06:09 14Design Principles: Graphics, Icons, And Photos
02:51 15Design Principles: Layouts And Focal Points
01:53 16Design Principles: Color-Blind Accessibility In Design
01:41Lesson Info
Design Principles: Repetition
Repetition could be thought of as boring. (laughing) I think a lotta times we overthink and feel like we need to reinvent the wheel. But repetition, I think, is very important because just as we saw in that last example with the color, repetition helps train us to know yellow means in progress. So, I'm a huge fan of repetition, and it's a tool to really help us understand and help whoever is reading our things or looking at our things understand even more. And repetition is just helpful when it comes to recall. Now, we know green is ready, yellow is in progress, et cetera, et cetera. So, repetition helps us with that recall. It helps us understand the context of things, anticipate content, so now we can anticipate, okay, green, yellow, red, and just increase the speed of understanding. So we no longer have to read. We can just go and understand in milliseconds rather than combing through a giant spreadsheet, for example. But the cool thing is, repetition isn't just helpful for you or f...
or your user or your viewers' understanding. Repetition can really be helpful for you as the person maybe presenting something. If you're doing a presentation at work or teaching a class or something like this, one trick I always use is, if we zoom out to some slides from another class I've taught, I don't know if you've noticed, we have a similar kind of color theme happening in this class. But I don't know if you've noticed, but we've been using, I've been using similar types of slides. We have these black ones that start the kind of topic, and then we have these pinkish purple ones for each kind of new subtopic and things. And maybe you've picked up on that, and that's wonderful if you have, but also, that's really helpful for me as a presenter so I know, okay, now we're in a new section. And sometimes in Keynote, you can have, when you're presenting on the side, you can have it show up kinda like this. I'm sure you've seen this before. So that you're kind of cuing yourself. So, design can be used, especially repetition, not just to help your readers' understanding but you as the presenter as well. And this, some people think this is overkill, but I'm not sure how other people really manage their time or know where they are if you're in a presentation that has close to 300 slides. It's really helpful to use this repetition to help cue your audience, especially if you're going back through this on your own, maybe, but also so for me to know the context of where we are, what's coming up, and things like that. So, maybe you've noticed this so far. If not, now you're going to notice and you know all my little cues for myself about now we're in a new section, things like that.
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