Here's an example of one of the well designed memos from the last video. The writing's all gibberish stand-in text, as I pointed out. Yet, we get an idea from this design that this is a well-organized thoughtful document that's going to be easy to read. The way your documents look sets the stage for your reader and persuades them you're a well organized writer. And it also convinces them that you're well organized professional. So what makes this design successful? If we remember out principles of clarity, our window pane, and waste no time, we can begin to see exactly what works here. This memo looks somewhat clean like our window pane. Like I keep saying, this isn't difficult. But as you'll start to notice in the documents that you read every day, it's amazing how many writers don't apply these simple principles to their own work, which puts you ahead of the game. First, when you look at this document you get a sense of white space. There's breathing room on the page, which suggests that there's breathing room in the reading experience. It's not too cluttered to the eye, and it welcomes the reader in. There's also balance on the page. The entire page isn't filled with text, but it's located on the page in a way that's pleasing to the eye. It could look like this. Or this. Those don't look nearly as nice. Our example is centered well from top and bottom and from side to side. Importantly, the paragraphs are short. This is one of the most important lessons that you can take from this video. Long paragraphs look like a lot of work. A busy person confronted with a lot of text immediately begins dreading readying the memo. And in fact, they may put it to the side. The easier you can make the memo look to read the better off you are. Short paragraphs are the key. Finally, the use of bullet points and subheads suggest strong organization. It also makes a document seem skimable. It looks easy to read quickly. If it looks like the important points are already highlighted for the reader, then the reader feels they have to do less work to understand your point. You should use bullets and bold text strategically to guide your readers' experience. To control the way that they navigate through your documents. You want them to notice your most important ideas. Well, if you highlight them for your readers, they will. One note, use boldface sparingly in your documents. If you highlight too much it overwhelms your reader. But, if you have an important call to action or news item, like, the meeting is Friday at 1 o'clock, you need a response in two days, or sales have increased by 150%. Experiment with boldface to highlight that important information. You can also use bold face as a lead in to your paragraphs. If you have a series of clearly organized points for each of your paragraphs, you can add a bold face lead that tells your leader just what your paragraph is about. For instance, we might be talking about target market, market demand, and product benefits. Used carefully, this can work as a nice device for your reader. Whenever you have a list of items consider highlighting them with bullet points. Bullet points make the reading experience seem skimmable and economical. They also call out and highlight important information. So, if you have a sentence like, we will increase profits by streamlining product development, improving fulfillment, and reaching more customers. You might write it in your memo as a list of bullet points like this. Let's briefly review. The elements that make this memo successful are white space, short paragraphs and organizational tags that create the impression of an inviting, quick reading experience. This impression gets made before your reader ever looks at a word. I've asked Dave to join us in our next video to discuss typeface and why it's so important. Spoiler alert, it has more to it than just avoiding Comic Sans. In the later lessons of this course, you'll see that the way that we organize our lessons and write our sentences echos this concept of breathing room and clarity.