Organize Your Content
- Create an outline of the content topics and information that needs to be included
- Decide what information needs to be placed in each section
- List the visual assets that you want to include in each section (ex. images, videos, scrolling etc)
- Determine what the navigation menu will consist of
Design The Microapp
- Navigation Considerations
- Include a navigation menu on each page
- Align menu or navigation on the left as a sidebar with short headlines and bullet points to the right
- Use a highlight or underline on each page to indicate which section of the navigation is selected
- If you want your page to read more like a website, put important icons and buttons in the corners and navigational information along the top or bottom horizontal areas of the page
- Text Considerations
- Utilize font size to highlight important information or headlines
- Use negative space to your advantage
- Various typeface can emphasize different information
- Consider the impact of bright colors vs muted colors as well as the color itself
- Icon / Shape Considerations
- Can be used to create buttons, navigational prompts and visual elements
- Samples may be found and used in your design tool
- Logos, street signs and dashboard symbols all provide inspiration
- Pages and States Considerations
- Plan states of your pages to break up information and allow users to explore at their own pace.
- Adding buttons between states will also give you more insights into what content your audience is interested in and can be viewed in Tiled's pathway analytics
- Designing a scrolling asset can help declutter and organize text heavy pages
- Galleries are a great way to provide step by step instructions or examples
- Creating Dynamic and Interactive Layers with Tiles in the Gallery
- For transparent backgrounds or overlays, export the slides as a PNG instead of a pdf so you can adjust the opacity
- Transparent layers imported as PNGs can also be included in scrolls with image backgrounds, stacked on top of videos or used in borderless galleries.
- Image galleries and scrolls make static items interactive through movement
- Place videos or motion graphics behind titles to create dynamic cover pages
- Include hotspots to link to videos
For additional resources and articles on designing microapps, check out our Blog or our Getting Started for Editors
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