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Title: ID-2050


1
ID-2050
  • The Design Lecture

2
Today
  • Document Design
  • Information Design
  • Tuftes Data Maps
  • BREAK
  • Graphical Excellence in practice

3
Document Design
  • Attributes of a good document
  • Design Principles
  • Choice of Visual Structure
  • Pagination
  • Margins
  • Fonts
  • Spacing
  • Headings

4
Good Design
5
Design Principles
  • Contrast
  • Color, icons, white space, headings
  • Proximity
  • Text and figures, related topics
  • Repetition
  • Consistent elements
  • Alignment
  • Consistent Left, Right or Center
  • Overall Impression
  • Cover, 1st impression, thumb-through

6
Trimburs Principles
  • Group Similar Items Together
  • Align Visual Elements
  • Use repetition and contrast
  • Add visual Interest

7
Visual Structure
  • Pagination and alignment
  • Margins and White Space
  • Fonts, emphases and sizes
  • Paragraph Spacing and indents
  • Headings
  • Graphics tables and figures

8
Tuftes Information Design
9
Theory of Data Graphics
  • Graphical Excellence
  • Data Density
  • Graphical Integrity
  • Lie Factor
  • Data Ink vs. Chartjunk
  • Multifunctioning Graphical Elements
  • Multidimensional Visuals

10
Graphical Excellence
11
Graphical Crappiness
12
Tuftes Principles
Graphical displays should
  • serve a clear purpose
  • show the data
  • focus on substance
  • avoid distortion
  • contain dense information
  • simplify the complex
  • allow multiple levels of interpretation
  • integrate with verbal descriptions

13
Tuftes Favorite Graphics
  • Data Maps
  • Time-Series
  • Space-time Narrative Designs
  • Relational Graphics

14
Data Maps
  • Dense
  • Multivariate
  • Multidimensional

15
GIS Maps
16
Venice Reminders
  • Culture project update
  • Populate Web Pages
  • Meetings with me
  • Meetings tomorrow snow
  • Midterm (not up to XV) on Wed.
  • Questions and Videos
  • Photos and Passports
  • Killer Graphs and Slides

17
Boston Reminders
  • Boston Trip update
  • Populate Web Pages
  • Calls to Sponsors?
  • Meetings tomorrow snow
  • Draft 1 Contract Review
  • Next Week Draft 2
  • Killer Graphs and Slides
  • Class with PR on Monday
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