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Examples of Bad Design
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  • When in the Course of human events,
  • it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
  • to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,
  • a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident,
    • that all men are created equal,
    • that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
      • Life,
      • Liberty
      • the pursuit of Happiness.

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Too Small: Better
  • When in the Course of human events,
  • it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
  • to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,
  • a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident,
    • that all men are created equal,
    • that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
      • Life,
      • Liberty
      • the pursuit of Happiness.

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Too Much Text on Slide
  • When in the Course of human events,
  • it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
  • to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,
  • a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident,
    • that all men are created equal,
    • that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
      • Life,
      • Liberty
      • the pursuit of Happiness.
  • That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
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Too Much Text on Slide: Better
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident,
    • that all men are created equal,
    • that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
      • Life,
      • Liberty
      • the pursuit of Happiness.

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  • This text is hard to read – dark on dark.
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Hard to read against background: Better
  • This text was hard to read – dark on dark.
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Animation: Too much at once
  • He has refused his Assent to Laws,
  • He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws
  • He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature,
  • He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records
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Animation: Too much at once Better: Line by line
  • He has refused his Assent to Laws
  • He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws
  • He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature
  • He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records