From Component House:

    Slow children, No hunting

  1. Review your icons
  2. Unrelated information shouldn’t be displayed together
  3. Use the right punctuation or appropriate separators
  4. Redundancy increases complexity
  5. Identify and remove conflicting ideas
  6. Hide unnecessary precision
  7. Fix typos
  8. Sentences with the right meaning
  9. Alignment
  10. Creativity saves the day

For the details and some hilarious example graphics, read the full article: Ten UI Lessons from the Real World.