Design Principles for

Media
By: Hannah Chlystek
#1 Multimedia Principle
This Principle says that there should be
words and pictures in the presentation.
Learners don't only learn through text.

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#2 Redundancy Principle
Text
This principle says that you don’t want too much
going on your slide. You want it to be simple and
only have 2-3 elements happening. Some examples
may be narration and graphics or graphics and text,
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as well as animation and narration.

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#3 Spatial Contiguity Principle
This principles says that students learn
better when the words and pictures are near
each other then far part on the page or
screen dependinging on your presentation.
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#4 Temporal Contiguity Principle
This principles says that words and text are
to appear at the same time rather than
appearing one at a time.
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#5 Coherence Principle
This principle says that any extraneous
narration, sound, images, ror video should be
excluded from the screen or page. This will
make it easier for learners to view the page or
screen.
Example
This media does conform to the principles. It has
simplicity not making it to redundant. There is
narration used to explain what the text is related
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to. It does not have a lot of words with the /d/1BdkLP60BSfEbQ_VMcn7HRgRwex
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pictures due to narration being used. The picture f75fceb_0_55
and narration are happening at the same time and
the heading is above the picture. This helps to tell
you what the slide will be about.
 References
1.mcennamo Follow. “7 Multimedia Principles.”
SlideShare, 30 Nov. 2008,
www.slideshare.net/mcennamo/7-multimedia-
principles-presentation?next_slideshow=1.
2.Nanda, Heena. “10 Design Principles Of Using
Multimedia In ELearning.” ELearning Industry,
16 Dec. 2020, elearningindustry.com/10-design-
principles-using-multimedia-in-elearning.