the idea that we're trying to communicate and let's add the arrow back.
And what we see as a result is a design that is not bright but
actually is much more clearer and much easier to comprehend and other example.
Once again this is a real life example and a there is too much blue and
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are way too noisy and the question is whether we can do without them.
And the answer is yes, we can use just white space to separate those things,
and we can remove those punctured lines.
And we can probably remove all that blue fills and replace them with just borders.
And the result will be something like that.
And I think this is a much better idea.
The next question is whether we need those blue borders at all and
the answer is well in this case probably not.
The diagram is really easy, working without borders is probably fine.
And I think the end result is much better compared to what we had before.
It takes about the same amount of space but
it's much easier to understand, it's much easier to read.
So fills are fine but borders are better.
And the next question is can we do without borders?
Next example, well, this a really complicated diagram and
it's in Russian too, but just trust me, knowing the language doesn't really help.
So as a first step, I will remove almost everything including the text,
and what we see here are lots and lots of colored boxes, and
the first thing to do would be to make them slightly more even.
I don't know why this is such a problem.
The next thing.
Do we need them to be green, and red, and purple, and another shade of green?
And the answer is, probable, no.
All we need to do, we need to catch the eye somewhere,
and then we need to lead that eye with our arrows towards the end.
So we probably need to highlight the beginning and the end,
because this is what problems are.
So, one of those boxes could be big, red and bright.
But the rest probably shouldn't be.
Next, we add those connecting lines,
arrows and we see that it is becoming way too busy.
We need to somehow separate those connecting lines from the boxes.
And the easiest things to do would be to dim of course those connecting lines
are so much better.
Now they are unobtrusive,
they just lead the eye without drawing too much attention.
Then we can add the text back and we can properly align it to the left.
In this particular example because just way too much text.