Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and NarrativeVisual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative is about pictures of verbs, the representation of mechanism and motion, process and dynamics, causes and effects, explanation and narrative. Practical applications and examples include statistical graphics, charts for making important decisions in engineering and medicine, technical manuals, diagrams, design of computer interfaces and websites and on-line manuals, animations and scientific visualizations, techniques for talks, and design strategies for enhancing the rate of information transfer in print, presentations, and computer screens. The use of visual evidence in deciding to launch the space shuttle Challenger is discussed in careful detail. Video snapshots show redesigns of a supercomputer animation of a thunderstorm. The book is designed and printed to the highest standards, with luscious color throughout and four built-in flaps for showing motion and before/after effects. |
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... interface . Rather than sequentially stacking up little bits of data to be unveiled gradually , this flat interface surfaces 45 options at once , distributing the information in space rather than in time . Museum - goers then touch the ...
... interface . Rather than sequentially stacking up little bits of data to be unveiled gradually , this flat interface surfaces 45 options at once , distributing the information in space rather than in time . Museum - goers then touch the ...
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... interface such as the museum kiosk is to reason that people use computers all the time and so the design will simply follow standard computer practice . Thus the interface offers a sequence of binary choices , perhaps beginning as ...
... interface such as the museum kiosk is to reason that people use computers all the time and so the design will simply follow standard computer practice . Thus the interface offers a sequence of binary choices , perhaps beginning as ...
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... interface 110-111 Medici Princess 138-139 Moses , Lincoln 7 Mosteller , Frederick 7 , 26 , 52 , 68-70 Motherwell , Robert 132-133 Mouse , Mickey 23 Mouse , Minnie 23 Moyle , Damiano da 112-113 multimedia 20-24 , 75 , 88-89 , 146-150 ...
... interface 110-111 Medici Princess 138-139 Moses , Lincoln 7 Mosteller , Frederick 7 , 26 , 52 , 68-70 Motherwell , Robert 132-133 Mouse , Mickey 23 Mouse , Minnie 23 Moyle , Damiano da 112-113 multimedia 20-24 , 75 , 88-89 , 146-150 ...
Contents
Images and Quantities | 13 |
Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions | 27 |
Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design | 55 |
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