Carolann Bonner has an article, Using Gestalt Principles for Natural Interactions that gives some central communication design principles, based on Gestalt ideas, that are directly relevant to communication & interface designers. Gestalt is a term used in psychology which expresses the idea that the whole of something is more important to our understanding than the individual parts. The Gestalt principles … Read More
Pervasive Information Architecture principles
These are central design guidelines, or heuristics, from the book Pervasive Information Architecture. by Andrea Resmini and Luca Rosati, with a website with more information here.
Testing your visual designs
Here is one testing model to see if your designs are successful: 1. Define one or two Research Questions for example, is my design more usable than the status quo? or, does my design increase comprehension compared to the status quo? or, is my design more attractive & engaging compared to the status quo? 2. Finalize your redesign of … Read More
Information & Design in Data Vis
▶ I Like Pretty Graphs: Best Practices for Data Visualization Assignments – YouTube | Program for Legal Technology & Design.
Best Practices for Data Visualization
▶ I Like Pretty Graphs: Best Practices for Data Visualization Assignments – YouTube | Program for Legal Technology & Design. The DesignLab from University of Washington has a great (hour long) presentation about how to integrate data visualizations into typically non-data-driven, non-visual classes in a university. It can also be bridged into law school classrooms, as a beginner intro to … Read More