I realized that I really wanted to highlight the "What Causes This Variation" section, so I tried to do that in the first one by keeping my design relatively the same and adding a background color for emphasis, and in the second design by making that section a column instead. Which do you guys like …
Natashia Project 1: Draft 2 Feedback
The main changes I made between this and my first draft was revamping the middle section and choosing only four major locations to represent; making a dotted line before the fourth section to suggest that it is a sub-section of the third; aligning the bottom boxes with the grid; changing all subtitle font to be …
Tola Draft 1 Feedback
This is an interesting topic! For structure, I do see three different levels of information in terms of a main title, subtitles, general information, and graphics/images. There is a good amount of white space to let things breathe and I do see some general sectioning, in terms of the image creating the first section, the …
Natashia Draft 1 Explanation: Social Mobility
*For context, I’m a Woody Woo major 🙂 The goal of this design was to explain some key findings about social mobility in the United States and how that relates to the achievement of the “American Dream”. In order to do this effectively, it aims to first define what social mobility means in this context, …
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Natashia – Blog Post 1: What is Effective Information Design?
What is Effective Information Design? As we learned in the first lecture, information design can be defined as something that instructs, and/or explains a concept while also supporting analysis, exploration, decision-making, and reasoning. Information design is most effective when it supports knowledge transfer. We can create designs that are conducive to knowledge transfer when we …
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Design For Understanding 