IAT 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gestalt Psychology, Critical Path Method, Dont
15 Nov 2012
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Researching what you want to show, as well as how to show it. Examples we discussed: bullet graph, spark lines (show vector, high points, low points, end point, margins) Design is always about innovating for context, consumer. Try a lot of different types of things (horizontal exploration), keep going until you"ve exhausted all horizontal ideas, then go back through and explore vertically (drill down on individual ideas) If it doesn"t have a meaning, throw it out. Good information design draws you in to something as stupid as the potato life cycle! Pert sequence diagram (critical sequence), the steps that cannot be left out, alternate paths, indexing system. Can just show info, but indexing system allows you to discuss it, commit it to memory. Gantt planning - common in project management, list of dependencies, waterfall, shows causality, shows simultaneous events, can show critical path and margins. Process diagrams - set of steps, if order, show it.
