Best Practices for Organizing and Designing Your Content

 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