Designing information : perception, human factors, and by Joel Katz

By Joel Katz

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This convention is no longer necessary and has never been particularly effective or elegant. Make every mark count. Dennis Kuronen Notational complexity almost always results in informational inefficiency. 43 Almost all engineering drawings of roads, and altogether too many maps for the general public, render a road—which is a path—with three lines: the two bounding lines and the band between them. The result is the creation of three lines to represent one. As shown in the example below, this makes our eyes and brain do extra work to determine which is the figure and which is the ground, and to discern one road or path from another.

Those targets, unlike the triangle apexes in the original, define a conventional scatter point array that shows the rise of the lagoon for 2,000 years. The illustration on the facing page represents a classic example of what can happen when a perfectly intelligent person sets out to visualize data without being able to perceive the consequences of his work. 2 Left. In this graphic, the archeologist’s graduate student fell into the trap of connecting the three pertinent points of a stroke and a point to make a triangle.

It follows the principle of information expansion, using two-dimensional space generously to avoid confusion and visual complexity. Unlike the layered graphic of the same information below, it does make seeing the overlap of ingredients abd their combination time consuming. Rancher, analogous to the diagram at right. Triplex, analogous to the Venn diagram at right. This elegant and intriguing Venn diagram uses space efficiently by layering, but relative quantities are difficult to ascertain, and understanding the components requires memorizing or looking back and forth at the legend.

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