Wednesday, 27 August: Visual Thinking

Discuss course materials – questions?

Discuss readings

Form Project 1 groups, assign books to find

Show examples of previous student work 

Review design journals and writing/drawing tools

The following pages are from Elizabeth Boling's Design Sketching,  available from Lulu

Sketchnoting example

Do in-class exercise with Visual Thinking 101 by Sean Griffin

Omar Sosa Tzec (IU HCI/d student) sketchnoting examples

Formatting in Word: layout, font choice, inserting images, drawing tables, scanning and printing

Homework:

• Read Don’t Make Me Think, “Street signs and breadcrumbs” (part 1) pp. 54 - 70; answer reading response questions and complete the interim assignments and submit through Oncourse assignments by Wednesday, 3 September at noon
• Visit the IU Art Museum and Fine Arts Library and begin documenting the experience of finding an assigned book following the process set out in the Project 1 brief 
• Read "The Power of the Doodle: Improve Your Focus and Memory"

Interim Assignments (Deadline extended to Monday, 8 September at noon):

• What is the “organizational system” used in the floor of the IU Art Museum atrium? Sketch or photograph it and describe it in words.
• What is the “organizational system” used for the vertical walls of the IU Art Museum? Sketch or photograph it and describe it in words. 
• What is the overall concept for the building geometrically? (You may wish to look at the model in the atrium to identify the key elements)

Reading Response Questions:

• What, according to Krug, are the overlooked purposes of navigation on a webpage?
• Also according to Krug, what is the relationship between navigation in physical spaces and navigation on a website? Be specific.