Blog on quality, knowledge management and collaboration: The Quality Blog

In this first part of my series of blog articles about layout and design, I will elaborate on one of the most basic, fundamental requirements to allow a text to be read quickly and without unnecessary cognitive load: the horizontal line of the text.

Everyone intuitively knows how important it is that written text is laid out in a well-organised manner. However, far too often, the aesthetic aspect takes precedence over the functional – usually because the writer has no idea how important correct layout is.

Allow me to ask you a simple question. “Would your know-how survive  if a  few key employees  left your company?”