Section III: picture design: How to Design Meaningful Graphics
by Ronnie Lipton
The Practical Guide to Information Design
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section I: audience: Identifying the Audience
- CHAPTER 1: How humans (almost) universally perceive
- CHAPTER 2: Usability and how to achieve it
- CASE STUDY: Drug label design relied on research at the mall
- CASE STUDY: Finding the tasks in a Web site
- CASE STUDY: Task-based focus groups help to redesign car manuals
- CASE STUDY: Surveys and recipe tests lead to a usable cookbook
- CASE STUDY: Universal how-to graphics, minimum of type
- CASE STUDY: Dealing with conflicting audiences’ needs
- CASE STUDY: Keeping the audience in touch
- CASE STUDY: More about how to use personas
- CASE STUDIES: Three ways to prepare the audience for a redesign
- Section II: word design: How to Design Understandably
- Section III: picture design: How to Design Meaningful Graphics
- CHAPTER 6: How to make pictures that inform
- Photos must be in focus
- Photos must have a focus
- Photos must mean something
- Photos must show what you're telling
- Photos must tell what you're showing
- Connecting the dots is tougher than it should be
- Pictures must show up close to where you talk about them
- Pictures must point readers into text (if they point at all)
- To flop or not to flop
- CHAPTER 7: Design, label, and caption diagrams clearly
- CHAPTER 8: Clear forms improve users' experience
- CHAPTER 9: How to help people find their way clearly
- Editing the viewer's experience
- Tell just one thing, not everything
- Walk the walk: “You are there”
- Guiding graphics principles
- What's the question?
- Favor accuracy and authority over flash
- Speak with a hierarchy of color and weight
- More about constraints … and compromise
- Use “heads-up” orientation
- More lessons taught
- Must-haves for wayseekers on the Web
- The value of symbols in wayfinding
- Numbers, color, and photos help to flag “here’“
- Show time, not just distance, when it counts
- Consider environmental context
- Wayfinding or anatomy? Project combines them
- A place to park, but no place to start
- Analyzing an information system
- Watching the signs
- Navigating a Web site
- State-of-the-art Web-design guidelines
- Be curious; embrace the question
- CHAPTER 6: How to make pictures that inform
- Bibliography/resources
- Chapter 1: How humans (almost) universally perceive
- Chapter 2: Usability and how to achieve it
- Chapter 3: How to work with type and layout
- Chapter 4: How to write clearly
- Chapter 5: How to use color meaningfully
- Chapter 6: How to make pictures that inform
- Chapter 7: Design, label, and caption diagrams clearly
- Chapter 8: Clear forms improve users’ experience
- Chapter 9: How to help people find their way clearly
- Useful information-design web sites, products
- Index
- About the Author
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