An Information Design Class @ Princeton University
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 …
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The last class of this spring semester was last week. Students presented their final stories over Zoom for the first time. This was an unusual format for the class as delivery is an important part of this project, but it worked well. Each student delivered a 6-minute story to explain a topic of their choice …
Continue reading "Project 2: Visual Stories final presentations!"
Students are working on the creation of a visual story that helps convey a deeper understanding of a topic of their choice, provides awareness, reveals unknown information, uncovers needs, and makes areas for improvement evident. They are also using data to explain and build an argument, show actual evidence and indicate possible ways forward. Here a selection …
Project1finalversionDownload Starting the project, I decided to go with a topic that I not only had a profound interest in but also one that outlines a societal issue. With my genuine regard for nutrition-related research and the deeply persistent problem related to the American diet, I settled on the academic study of the processed sugar …
bone-regeneration-finalDownload I began my process of information design creation with the goal of holding simplicity above all other pursuits. I wanted to avoid extraneous graphics, colors, information, or formatting. I distilled a complex scientific process down into four sentences and an unimaginative four steps, nothing else. My pursuance of simplicity in order to make a …
This is how I've done my second draft, I made it more in the newspaper style with the columns, and I tried to use all the space to include as much information as I can. I think I can still resize and rearrange the pieces to fit a bit better. Please give any feedback.
Iterating through the design, I have arrived at this current version. More information has been included on the differential steering mechanism in support of the efficiency of turning mechanical problems in conventional cars into software/electrical ones in electrical vehicles. By shifting the focus of my design into differentiating electrical and gasoline powered cars I hope …
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