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3 Methods to Elevate Your Writing with Visual Content

Steeve on May 02, 2024

Most of DEV articles are made of text with code sections, but it's difficult to understand all concepts and ideas at once for readers. Sometimes, y...
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The image banner is generated from Adobe Firefly 3, I wanted to test it with something original. The prompt is:

A 30 years old guy is shocked in the middle of the screen with the mouth wide open and his hands on his cheeks. They are cute animals behind and around him, like sharks, dinosaure, crocodiles, crabs, bears. On the left and right side there is a volcano eruption with a river of lava.

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Thaísa Vieira

That image is exactly how I felt right after reading this article. I loved this reflection on how writing can be inclusive with other types of learners.

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Ahahah, thank you! Yes writing is not only for us, but for everyone, and we often lack of foresight. In french we say:

ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez

Meaning in literal English:

see no further than the end of your nose

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Anmol Baranwal

For me, I prefer using images with a group of text. Mostly because I hate reading large blocks of text unless it's engaging and authentic. Visual learning is effective, and others should use it too.

For the demo, you can also attach Jam (a Chrome extension) which captures the browser console, that might help indirectly.

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I totally agree Anmol, I hate reading chunks of texts too: when I open a new article on DEV, I scroll to quickly check the length of the content, the structure, and if it contains visual material, if none, I quite.

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Wow Jam is super cool, I'm going to try it for my next article, and also for professional projects. Thank @anmolbaranwal for your valuable message!
Have a great day!

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Michael Tharrington

Wow, this is freaking dope! So much good advice in here. 😀

All your tags are wonderful, but if you wanna tag this with #howtodevto, that would also be a great fit. We're trying to build up a bunch of community created resources that teach folks how to use DEV... that's the idea there!

#howtodevto

Guidance, tips, and tricks for using dev.to

Anywho, it's absolutely up to you if ya wanna change the tags. Regardless, this is an awesome post and I'll be doing my best to help elevate it! 🙌

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Thank you @michaeltharrington, I'm grateful for your incredible support 🙏

I didn't know the existence of #howtodevto, I applied the tag to the article, and now I'm subscribed :D Have a great day!

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Michael Tharrington

Nice!! Appreciate ya adding it and thanks for sharing your helpful advice with the community. 😀

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10x learner

So many great tools in here.
Not only for writing articles on Dev.to, but also very useful when I need to report information to my coworkers !

Thank you @steeve for this great article !

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You are welcome, I'm glad this article is going to help your team writing better content :D

Thank you @10xlearner for your feedback 🙏 Have a great day!

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raviklog

Good article to present the tools required for improving the article presentations. Tools like Draw.io will be helpful for doing software documentation as well.

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Yes Draw.io is cool, after using it for a while, I switched to the Canva's Whiteboard:

  • It provides a lot of material / shapes / pictures to be creative
  • Tools are easy to use, even childs can use it
  • The generated content looks less "serious" compared to draw.io which is too much squared, too much professional.

Thanks @raviklog for your comment, have a great day!!