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Webinar: Maps, Diagrams and Timelines - Inspiration for Interactive Design
August 28th
1:00 to 2:00PM EDT
Online
The map, the diagram and the timeline are an integral part of our interactive design vocabulary. As we confront our next User Experience and Interactive Design assignments, where can we turn for inspiration? What are the information design principles and techniques that great maps and diagrams share? Where did these principles come from?
Please join Paul Kahn as he takes you through time to answer these questions. You will find inspiration for user-centered mobile design in Roman Empire travel instructions as well as the revolutionary transportation map of 1930s London. Paul will share methods for visual compression in both a Modernist Bauhaus atlas and a detailed map of 18th century Paris. A diagram explaining human health as an industrial factory and the first timeline of world culture will show how to present complex information through metaphor and alignment. It is a story of invention and distortion, realism and fantasy, manipulations of space and time.
Discussing these historical examples, Paul will isolate the visual-cognitive techniques that have proven effective over the centuries. His examples will illustrate how the same techniques can be applied in the best of today’s interactive designs.
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