Recently, a SlideMagic user asked for some help with adding “some more color” to a slide. (A table to be included in an internal strategy document).
My response was the opposite, rather than adding color and accents, I took things out. To make things stand out, you can either emphasize these things, or de-emphasize everything else.
Here is the starting point (confidential text removed). Btw., look how neat and organized it already looks, thanks to SlideMagic…
Below my suggestion:
The things I did:
Changed color accents
Grouped and de-duplicated text boxes that contained the exact same text
Changed relative heights of rows
Moved title category labels to the top
Added the arrows to visualize that the bottom item supports everything else