If you’re going to set up an office notice board, here are some ways you can keep it from falling into disarray.

Leave some breathing room

In designer-speak a lack of content is called ‘negative space’. It can be a good thing. It’s one of the main tools when it comes to designing a user-friendly layout.

The same principles should govern your notice board. When including something, give it a bit of space on all sides. This will ensure your notices are easy to see and understand.

Stick with one layer 

Multiple layers of notes and papers on a notice board not only get unwieldy, but they also increase the cluttered look tenfold.

If you’re particularly bad at remembering to take old notices down, then a magnetic glass whiteboard is a great answer to your problem. When you end up with multiple layers and the magnets stop sticking, you know it’s time for a cleanup.

Assign someone the task of cleaning your notice board 

Just as your office kitchen gets a cleaning roster, so too should your notice board. Once a week, someone should go through and take down the out of date notices.

If your notice board is a glass whiteboard, then give the surface a clean as well - it’s quick, easy and will refresh your office for the week ahead.

Direct the eye

This is another design principle. It’s essentially understanding how people will look at your notice board and then designing its layout around that behaviour.

Most of us, for instance, will scan things left to right, top to bottom. It’s a good idea then to put your most pertinent information to the top or left (or both!) edge of your notice board.

The last place we tend to look is the bottom right, so that’s the place to put notices that are permanent but not urgent - such as parking allocation maps, canteen price lists, etc.   

Another way you can direct the eye is by using skewed layouts. Our focus naturally follows diagonal lines, so positioning your notices with this in mind ensures information is seen in the right order of importance.

Organise in sections

If your notice board is an eclectic hodge-podge, make it easy to find pertinent information by organising the content into sections.

Using a magnetic glass whiteboard can be handy for this because you can draw the quadrants right onto the surface with a whiteboard marker. 

Cool notice board ideas

Office notice boards needn’t be where fun and innovation go to drown among a sea of memos and printouts. Even if your workspace is more structured, there are interesting approaches you can take to the traditional notice board.

Here are some cool ideas that can inform your notice board design.

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Who doesn’t love a good bit of trivia? The ‘TIL’ board is a great way to get people actually looking at your notice board.

Extra points if you have a reward at the end of the week for most obscure factoid.

Polaroid board

Weddings have been using this trick for years because, hey - it’s fun! Here’s how it works:

Title your board and leave a polaroid camera nearby. The idea is to have your employees snapping candid photos of themselves or each other for display.

This works especially well with a magnetic glass whiteboard: simply stick your polaroid to the surface using a rare earth magnet and use a whiteboard marker to write a snappy, silly or funny caption near it. Just remember, you must use super-strong “rare earth” magnets (which are quite common nowadays) because ordinary fridge magnets are too weak.

Beloved pets

If the internet has proven anything it’s been just how much people love looking at cute animals. So, why not roll with it?

Inviting employees to show off pictures of their pets is a great way to get people talking. Because, let’s face it, who doesn’t like waxing poetic about their cat? You can bet that your office’s visitors will take a look too.

The portfolio

This one’s especially useful if you frequently give clients tours of your office. Displaying a portfolio of your best work is also a great way to congratulate the employees that worked on those projects. It’s your living showcase.

Voting board

This is another idea that works great with magnetic glass whiteboards. Here’s how it works: write out your options and invite employees to place magnets under each one to signal their vote.

What are they voting on? Anything they like. Perhaps you want to know if your workers like a particular brand of coffee over another. Perhaps you’re choosing the name of the latest fish in the reception area aquarium. The only limitation here is your imagination.

The terrible selfie board

Challenge your employees to take the worst possible selfie and then display the final product on your notice board. Extra points if there’s a weekly winner voted into stardom. 

Put your glass notice board to good use

Notice boards needn’t be a memo graveyard. Used well they boost productivity, reflect your brand and encourage interpersonal dynamics.

Now you know everything there is to know about how you can put your magnetic glass notice board to good use. Which ideas are you going to try first?

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