Adding Blank Space - How And Why

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, in this video I want to talk about adding blank spaces.
• 00:07 So up until now we've just been sort of dragging things, and dropping things,
• 00:11 and everything sort of shmushed together.
• 00:13 Yes, shmushed is the technical term for this.
• 00:16 And it's all very busy looking, right, it's kind of hard to read.
• 00:20 I mean it's okay, but there's a lot going on here.
• 00:24 So people tend to do this, they try to cram as much as they can and
• 00:26 the kitchen sink into each of their dashboards.
• 00:28 And I get that you want all your information in there, but
• 00:32 you might want to think about adding blank space to make things easier to read and
• 00:36 we can do that in several different ways.
• 00:39 Here we have a blank tile right here, we can just grab this and drag it around.
• 00:44 And say I want one right here, right, so boom,
• 00:46 all of a sudden there's a big blank space there.
• 00:50 Now this is obviously too big, we can change this around a little, right,
• 00:54 maybe we just want a little bit of a blank space right there.
• 00:57 And just that easy everything is a little bit easier to read, right,
• 01:01 there's a little bit more blank space there.
• 01:04 And maybe you're not done there, maybe you pull another one over here,
• 01:08 you pop another one in there.
• 01:11 Resize this, obviously we're going to need to move these floating tiles around.
• 01:16 Pull this over, and pull this one over.
• 01:23 However we like.
• 01:27 And maybe resize this a bit.
• 01:33 At this point I'm just playing because this is fun, but
• 01:35 you're starting to get the idea.
• 01:37 Now, just adding a little bit of white space makes everything
• 01:41 a little bit easier to read.
• 01:43 And maybe this is too much whitespace, maybe you just want a little bit,
• 01:47 resize it like this, and just a little bit there, see.
• 01:51 And same thing here, maybe we just want a little bit just to add just enough to make
• 01:56 some separation between our different areas, and
• 01:59 I think that's really important.
• 02:01 So we can do the same thing here for instance.
• 02:04 And it's kind of a little hard to get this exactly,
• 02:08 because when you're dropping these things in, actually let's.
• 02:13 When you're dropping these things in, okay, as you can see it's
• 02:19 a little tricky to get this just right but play around with this.
• 02:25 There we go.
• 02:26 And you can see it's subtle, and it's a subtle thing, right.
• 02:31 So we do one more over here for instance.
• 02:34 Boom, try and get these to line up a bit.
• 02:40 There we go.
• 02:41 Okay, so starting to look a little bit better, and
• 02:44 it just adds a little something, a little separation.
• 02:47 Now maybe this needs to be edited so that it's not centered anymore.
• 02:52 And we might then, I don't know, just put some space in, maybe a little bit more,
• 02:59 just to make this look a little centered even though it's not centered
• 03:04 because we've moved stuff over, right, and it's all coming together.
• 03:09 And like I said, it's very subtle, just a little bit of whitespace,
• 03:14 a little bit of blank space here and there between things can make a world of
• 03:18 difference in order to make things easier to read, make it feel not so cluttered,
• 03:23 and just maybe a little bit more professional.
• 03:26 Oops, we need to move these around.
• 03:29 One of the big problems with adding blank spaces is if you have floating tiles they
• 03:33 won't resize automatically.
• 03:35 So you'll have to go in and resize all your floating tiles, but
• 03:37 that's not a big deal, we just kind of move them around just like we just did.
• 03:41 And that's starting to look pretty good, so that's all for this video.
• 03:43 In the next video we'll look at creating stories.

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