After a 12-week long course, students have completed projects dealing mostly with complex content for which they explored ways to make that complexity more accessible, without removing important meaning or developing simplistic outputs. Students learned basic information design principles and Gestalt principles, practiced how to organize information, identified relevant from irrelevant content, and put together an argument using data to support key claims. For the last project, students went back to the basics and create an instructional poster that visually explains how to do something.
Students chose a process and explained it in a clear, accessible way so that someone who is unfamiliar with it can easily understand. These are some of the final posters.
Design For Understanding 