From the course: Using Design Principles to Enhance Remote Trainings

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Applying grouping techniques

Applying grouping techniques

- Have you ever felt a sense of disorganization when looking at a remote training? If so, learning about the power of grouping elements will be a tremendous help. Grouping principles will prevent your learners from misinterpreting your visuals from unintended groupings. In this lesson, I will demonstrate several ways to group content together so that your learners form the connections you intended. Grouping is information organized into wholes rather than parts. When connected objects are grouped together, it ensures that viewers perceive the information in meaningful units. The less space there is between an image and its description, the less work there is for the learner's brain. Placing elements that work together to communicate a concept makes that concept easier to grasp. Boundary and connectedness are principles to evoke grouping in your training. The boundary principle says that if a set of elements is enclosed with a boundary, such as a circle, those elements are grouped…

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