Circle Map - used for defining in context
Bubble Map - used for describing with adjectives
Flow Map - used for sequencing and ordering
Brace Map - used for identifying part/whole relationships
Tree Map - used for classifying/grouping
Double Bubble Map - used for comparing and contrasting
Multi-Flow Map - used for analyzing causes and effects
Bridge Map - used for illustrating analogies
ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Maps
For the next session;
You’ve got the job for the wayshowing system design of Fen-Edebiyat Building of Davutpaşa, YTU.
The whole project process should be like this:
01. Defining the problem
02. Composing the team
03. Collecting the data
04. Categorazing the data
05. Strategy
06. Planning
07. Designing the signages
08. Desining the hardware
09. Application
10. Testing
For this thursday, you should bring a pdf document presenting the first 5 stages.
The course is about;
1. what is wayfinding?
(spatial problem solving process)
2. wayfinding process.
3. wayfinding strategies.
4. what is wayshowing?
5. types of messages.
(identification, direction, description, regulation)
6. why signs don’t work
Case Studies: airports, hospitals, museums, school buildings, parks…
Terms: Wayfinding, wayshowing, identification, direction, description, regulation, track following, route following, educated seeking, inference, screening, aiming, map reading, compassing, social navigation, on-site, off-site, on-route, previsit
This week,
we started the “wayshowing” subject
by discussing
how a wayshowing project should be carried out.
Steps of a wayshowing project:
01. Defining the problem
(who is the user, what is the subject, problems)
02. Composing the team
(architect, graphic designer, enformation designer, spatial designer, user for the participatory study…)
03. Collecting the data
(the architectural plan, content, routes, layers)
04. Categorazing the data
(user, data, routes)
05. Strategy
(method for giving information)
06. Planning
(defining the layers, routes and finding solution for the decided strategy)
07. Designing the signages
(cooperate identity, typeface, color scheme, type sizes…)
08. Desining the hardware
(shape, height, dimensions, material, lighting…)
09. Application
10. Testing
Terms: wayshowing, signage, hardware
During this session we discussed
information modules (text, lists, tables, symbols, pictures, graphs, bars, charts, pies, lines, timeline…)
organisations (color, layering, size, shape, contrast, texture, composition, grouping, position, pattern, dimension, links, paths…)
types of messages (mechanism, identification, motion, process, time and space, connections, identification, relations)
message elements (warnings, identification, measurements, composition, location and orientation, sequences, movements and connections, cause and effect)
Task 3: draw a series of images to explain how to use the mechanical tool you chose for the second task.
In this session we are going to discuss about infology (Pettersson, 2002)
Some keywords: data, information, knowledge, wisdom, communication, mental information processing, perception, taxonomy, analogy, genre, hierarchy
Task (2) draw and explain a detailed mechanical tool.
bring some information design examples that you liked for the next session.
note. you can post what you’ve found as a comments for this post.
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