Chapter 3. Billboard Design 101

DESIGNING FOR SCANNING, NOT READING

If you / Don’t know / Whose signs / These are You can’t have / Driven very far / Burma-Shave!

—SEQUENCE OF ROADSIDE BILLBOARDS PROMOTING SHAVING CREAM, CIRCA 1935

Faced with the fact that your users are whizzing by, there are some important things you can do to make sure they see and understand as much of what they need to know—and of what you want them to know—as possible:

Image Take advantage of conventions

Image Create effective visual hierarchies

Break pages up into clearly defined areas ...

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