Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Document Design: Find a government document that is intended to present information but has such poor design

http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/Archive/Filing_Your_Tax_Return.pdf

Tax return forms are important forms to fill out for people in many countries. Taxes are given to the government, however, many people qualify for tax returns. A tax return is a document indicating the annual income and circumstance of a family that is used by the government in order to give citizens back money they could use. There are often many people who do not understand how to fill out a tax return form. There are instructions but the instructions may be a bit confusing to many people.

The image above is the cover of a packet that explains to a person how to fill out a tax return form. This is a government document that is read by many people. This particular instructions manual is for filling out a Tax Return form in New Delhi. This document is a boring document. There are no colors or images in order to make reading this easy. It is straight to the point. This text is word-heavy which does not appeal to people. Although this is a government document, there is no need for this to be dull and borings. Many people have to read this document and understand it in order to fill out their tax return forms. Why make it hard on people? If people do not read this document and do not fill out the f but are eligible for a tax return, they let the government keep the money they could have gotten back. This government document does a good job at not keeping the attention of readers and making this text hard and difficult to read by being text heavy and not appealing to the eye.

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