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In this lecture,
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we bring together many of the things
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that we have learned so far in the section
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in order to create something that we call visual hierarchy.
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So let's see what visual hierarchy is all about.
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And essentially, visual hierarchy is all about establishing
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which elements of a certain design
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are the most important ones.
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So that's exactly what hierarchy means, right?
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So essentially, we need to establish a hierarchy of elements
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in order to draw attention to the most important ones
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of these elements.
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And doing this is actually one of the best ways
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to make a layout actually look designed.
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So oftentimes, an interface looks way more pleasing
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simply because the visual hierarchy
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is very well thought out and conveyed to the user.
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But before moving on,
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let's quickly look at an example here.
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Now, even without having learned anything
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about visual hierarchy,
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we can kind of intuitively see that the photos in the top
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and the booking box draw the most attention on this page,
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right?
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And so again, establishing visual hierarchy
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is basically giving more prominence
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to these more important elements.
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And the reason why it is this way
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is that the visual hierarchy
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has been correctly established
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by a combination of position, colors, shadow,
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border, and other elements.
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And so that's why I also said
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that this lecture is basically gonna be a culmination
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of everything that we have learned before.
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But anyway, moving on a little bit,
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visual hierarchy is also about defining a path for our users
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in order to guide them through the page in an intuitive
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and kind of automatic way.
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So imagine that a user enters this page,
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the attention will probably immediately fall
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on this big block of images here.
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Then after that,
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the attention will go to this other important element
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such as we had highlighted to before, right?
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Then from there, it might go to this button
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because of the very bright color,
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and only then the attention of the user might jump
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here to the center part.
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So to the top, probably off this part,
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and then here going down a little bit further
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reading all this text and only then in the very end,
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the attention might jump finally to this very small element
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that is here at the very bottom and with a small text.
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So as I had briefly mentioned already,
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what we do in order to establish
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a meaningful visual hierarchy
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is to use a combination of position, size, colors,
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spacing, borders, and shadows.
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And so the goal of this lecture is basically to show you
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how you can do exactly that.
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So establishing a good visual hierarchy
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between elements and components.
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Now just as another example,
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imagine that we didn't have borders and shadows
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in this example.
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So then, it would look like this,
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and all of a sudden, the flow that we had before
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would be kind of lost.
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So the user maybe wouldn't really know anymore
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where to look after scanning the images.
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However, we do want our user to go to that reserve box.
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And so that's why this element was before
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featured so prominently.
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But anyway, we can even take it one step further
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by even removing the color from this component.
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And so now the visual hierarchy is completely lost
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and the interface, all of a sudden
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doesn't look so well designed anymore, right?
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So just two or three simple changes that we did here,
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and suddenly, the design has a completely different look
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and feel.
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But of course, we want to avoid that
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when creating our own designs,
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and so let's now go learn how.
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So starting with the very fundamentals,
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the first guideline that I have for you
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is that you should position important elements
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closer to the top of the page
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because that is where they get the most attention.
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So people usually read a page from top to bottom,
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and so therefore elements that appear first on a page,
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so closer to the top will naturally get more attention.
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Now of course, there are many other factors involved
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in drawing attention,
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so not just the position related to the top of the page,
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but in general, attention flows from the top to bottom,
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so basically just like a river,
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and that applies to the overall page,
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but also to individual components.
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So in this example here,
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the first thing that the user might maybe notice
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is that logo there, then the navigation
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and then immediately it will go for this main heading here.
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And so since this is the most important heading,
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it should be as close as possible to the top of the page.
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Then from there, attention will of course keep flowing down.
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And here we also see that we have this really important
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call-to-action button.
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And so your very first call to action button
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should also be as close as possible to the top of the page.
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Now, next up, it's important to be aware of the fact
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that images draw a lot of attention,
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and so therefore, you need to use them mindfully.
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So in this small component,
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the attention will probably immediately fall on the image
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and only then go here to this heading
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and then to the button.
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And so if we really, really wanted our user
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to read the text,
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then maybe we should consider not using the image at all
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or making a smaller image,
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because smaller images draw a little bit less attention.
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Then the next one here is from Instagram
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where probably this first profile picture
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draws the most attention,
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and then from there,
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it will immediately go down here to these images,
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and maybe Dan from there,
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the attention might flow back up to these other information
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like followers, description and so on and so forth.
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Another way to emphasize elements or groups of elements
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is to use whitespace strategically.
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So as we learned before,
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whitespace creates separation between elements
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or groups of elements,
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and so therefore, it is also extremely important
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in order to correctly define a visual hierarchy.
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So for example, in these two designs,
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they have a lot of whitespace around
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this most important part of this page.
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So on the left especially, there is a ton of whitespace
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basically around the sign up form,
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while on the right side,
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there is a huge amount of whitespace between the two rows
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and also really around these five feature blocks.
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Now I don't mean of course,
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that you should always surround everything
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with this much whitespace,
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just follow the rules that we learned previously
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about whitespace and you're gonna be fine.
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The point here is just that we can use whitespace
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strategically in order to make it important elements
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stand out.
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Okay.
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And now, we're gonna start focusing only on text elements,
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so learning how and when we can make different text elements
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more or less prominent,
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because this is actually one of the most important things
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of doing visual hierarchy on a smaller level.
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So for example, inside of a component.
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So for text elements,
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we can use a combination of font size, font weight,
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color and whitespace to give elements
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different levels of importance.
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And by color, I mean both text color and background color,
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like for example, on buttons.
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And let's study again, the example from the beginning,
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so this one here.
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And so at the very beginning, we have no hierarchy at all,
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all the texts has the same size, the same weight and color,
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only a little bit of whitespace has already been added.
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Now as a first step of improving this,
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we can increase the font size a little bit on the title,
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which is the most important piece of content here.
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Next up, we can increase the font weight,
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for example, on the location, the heading again,
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and also the rating of 5.0.
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So this is looking quite nice already,
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there is definitely a lot more visual hierarchy than before,
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but we can even make this better to make it perfect.
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So basically the final step is to lighten some of the colors
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in order to give them a little bit less importance.
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So here, the superhost label, the location,
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and also the number of ratings has actually been lightened
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in order to give them less prominence
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than the rest of the content.
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And let's check out another example here,
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which is this one where at the beginning,
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all the text is at 20 pixels
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and there is no hierarchy at all,
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there is no whitespace, no color, no font weight,
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and really nothing.
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So in order to improve this,
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we can change the font sizes a little bit
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and add some whitespace.
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So now there are a lot of different font sizes here
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according to the importance of each of the elements.
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So already looking a lot better, but to make it perfect,
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we can also add some font weight and some color.
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So what we did here was to emphasize some of these elements
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by making them bold,
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then we added also some color to emphasize this link,
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and finally, we once again made some less important texts
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a little bit lighter.
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And so with this, it becomes de-emphasized
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which is a technique that we use all the time
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to build a nice visual hierarchy like this one.
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So the content is the same,
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but compared to left with the right design,
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it's really all about using these techniques
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in order to establish a visual hierarchy,
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nothing more and nothing less than that.
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And all of a sudden, it looks really well-designed,
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doesn't it?
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And since this is so important,
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let's look at a couple of other examples,
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but this time analyzing only the flow.
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So here it's probably, again,
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the image who is going to draw the most attention
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and only then our eyes are going to move
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to that headline here,
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and followed then by this colored button here
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in the bottom.
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So this has this eye-catching background color,
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and therefore, it draws a lot more attention than the text
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that is between the headline and this button.
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Then we might look at the price
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and the other pieces of content that are here.
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Now of course, these flows will be different
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for different people,
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but I'm just describing what I think
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makes more sense for the average user.
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Then another example of a well-designed visual hierarchy
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is this one, where again, we start at the very top,
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but then our bright blue button here in the bottom
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will draw our attention.
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From there, we might move to this bold text here.
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So again, the different weight is used here
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in order to draw attention, right?
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And only then in the end,
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we might go to this de-emphasized text,
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which is a bit lighter and also has less font weight.
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Then another one where we have a more classical
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top to bottom flow,
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however it gets small and light sub-title
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that says work-03, is not really drawing any attention
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because it's so light and so thin and small.
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So that's why we skipped it because I think that many users
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will actually skip that and jump straight into the headline
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with their attention.
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Now here then we have this nice and subtle background color
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which makes this piece of content stand out a little bit,
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so otherwise, maybe the attention would immediately go
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to that image.
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But like this, maybe we will first stop here,
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and then after that, we might look at the image
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and then the rest of the content here.
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Finally, just another one,
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and, well here we just start here with this really big text,
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then probably, we might go to this text
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that is a little bit smaller,
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and then here we have this bright color,
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which I think draws a lot of attention,
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and so I think detention might jump there next,
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and only then, we go to this small text
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followed by this other even smaller text
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that's right here at the bottom.
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So here in this example, once again,
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you can really start seeing now why designers
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took the decisions that they did with the size,
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weight color, and also whitespace.
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So all of these components are really well-designed
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and therefore the visual hierarchy is also top-notch.
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And so again, nothing here is a random,
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all the design decisions make sense
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because the designer wanted to establish a visual hierarchy
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to guide the user.
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But now you might ask,
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what elements should we actually emphasize?
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Well, we should emphasize contents like titles,
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sub-titles, links, buttons, data points, and icons.
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And as we already saw in all the previous examples,
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we can also, de-emphasize less important texts,
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so things like labels or simply secondary information.
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So again, that example that we worked on previously,
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here, we have to title, which is really emphasized,
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we have an icon, which is emphasized by the color,
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then we have a really important data point,
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which is this rating, and that's why it is bold.
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Here is a link,
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and finally, there is some less important text here.
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So some additional information that on purpose,
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we made lighter in order to de-emphasize it, all right?
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So these are basically the types of texts
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that are important to think about
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when we create visual hierarchy.
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And let's take a look at a couple of more examples.
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So again, I can sub-title and link.
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And here, we have sub-title and a title and the icon,
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and also the sub-title here.
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And I'm going through these examples a lot faster now
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because as I mentioned before,
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I actually want you to download these lectures as PDF slides
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so that you can then study them on your own
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and get a lot of inspiration
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for when you start building your own designs.
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So you shouldn't just watch this video and call it a day.
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It's very important to also really analyze
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all of these examples one by one,
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because I did choose them very, very carefully
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with tens or probably hundreds of hours of research,
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all right?
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But anyway, let's take a look at a couple more.
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So here again, we have a sub-title
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and a couple of very important data points,
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so in this case that's prices,
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and so therefore, they are bold and bigger
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than the rest of the text,
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and I think they're even darker.
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Then here, we also have some additional information
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once again,
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so just telling customers that this is for European cards,
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and therefore this text is a lot lighter and also smaller.
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Then here, these icons are apparently quite important,
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which is why they got this nice attention-grabbing color.
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And then finally, there is this very subtle button,
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so a button with a very subtle background color,
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because if this was for example, green,
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like the rest of the text here,
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then that button would get all the attention.
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But in this case apparently,
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the designers wanted to focus to be on the prices
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and not on the button,
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and so that's why they basically took out
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the green background color
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and replaced it with is very subtle gray.
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Now another one here are some icons,
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some important data points,
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and then this here is very nicely de-emphasized
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by being super small, but still with this uppercase text,
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which I think looks amazing actually.
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Then here again, on Instagram,
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there is a data point and then these buttons here
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are actually really noticeable de-emphasized.
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And the reason for that is that Instagram
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doesn't want to take any attention away
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from the photos, all right?
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That's also why the mobile application
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is completely white, basically,
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except of course for all the pictures.
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All right, so that was a lot to take in
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about visual hierarchy for text elements,
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but we're not done yet,
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because now we need to talk visual hierarchy
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between components,
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so that's also super important.
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And by components, essentially I mean groups of elements
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or big areas of content.
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So let's focus now on establishing visual hierarchy
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between components,
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and the way we do that is through a combination
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of background colors, shadows, and border.
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So let's take a look at an example.
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And so here in this design,
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this really bright background color
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really makes this section completely stand out
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from the rest of the page, right?
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And the same is true here on this website.
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So again, one big standout section
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which is going to take all the attention right here,
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and of course, that is on purpose.
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So that's why they chose this color right here,
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because that is where they want the user's attention to go.
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And this second one actually not only uses background color,
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but also a nice shadow,
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you see that?
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Then this one here also use a shadow
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and it uses border as well.
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So border and shadow, but no background color,
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while this next one uses once again,
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exclusively background color
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to highlight this most important role of this table.
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Now another common technique of emphasizing a component A
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over a component B is by simply de-emphasizing
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the component B.
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So let's say right here, we have component A and B,
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and we want to have component A stand out more.
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So we could of course add maybe a border
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or a shadow to the left one, so to component A,
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but what we can also do is to simply de-emphasize
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component B.
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So it lost its background color,
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and now component A has been made more prominent
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by simply removing dead background color from component B.
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And by the way, notice also that arrow that says free
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close to the start now button.
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So that is yet another way to basically emphasize
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that start now button, right?
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So that's not a technique I'm mentioning here
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in this lecture, but it's still just another way
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of drawing attention to that important button.
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So here are some more examples of de-emphasizing
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one component in order to emphasize the actual component
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that we want the user to focus on.
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Now, finally, just like with text elements,
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you now might be wondering, what kinds of components
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you should actually draw the attention to
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when you're building your own designs?
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Well, here I have a big list of some components
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that we usually want to stand out
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from the rest of our page's content.
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And so let's not take a look at an example of each of them.
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So this is an example of a testimonial,
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so if someone talking about your own product,
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basically by trying to advertising it,
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then we have call to action sections,
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which many times websites have like on the end of a page
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so that the user signs up for their product
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or their service.
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Then, there are also highlight sections as I call them,
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which are essentially big sections
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in the middle of your content,
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which we kind of want to stand out,
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and so we simply can give them, for example,
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a different background color like this design here does.
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And here are two more examples of highlight sections,
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and again, they use some different background color
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than the rest of the page to really stand out there.
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Then we also have preview cards,
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which I had mentioned before already.
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So basically previewing some kind of product,
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for example, that you're trying to sell.
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And so these again, many times should stand out
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from the rest of the content
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by using shadow or some kind of border.
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Then there are also forms which can look like this,
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or pricing tables where many times,
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there are different pricing options,
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and then the designer usually highlights the one
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that they actually want the user to choose.
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So that can be done using a background color,
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but there are also many other options
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that you can choose from
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as I will show you a little bit later.
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Because actually, we have an entire big lecture
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all about different components.
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And finally, as we already saw it a bit earlier,
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we can also highlight or emphasize an important role
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or an important column in a table.
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And of course, this list of examples is not exhaustive,
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there are many, many components
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which can use some emphasizing, all right?
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But this lecture is already running quite long,
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and so let's actually implement some of these things
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in the next lecture.
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So I see you there after you hopefully finished studying
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this lecture some more.
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