Sketchplanations - Simplifying complex ideas in sketches
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Sketchplanations - Simplifying complex ideas in sketches
What do people need to understand? What are the edges of the map or diagram? What are you not mapping or diagramming? Where will other people see this map or diagram (e.g., on a wall, in a presentation, on paper)?
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody
What is included in a narrative, what is left out and the values it embodies are determined by what cognitive scientist and linguist George Lakoff refers to as ‘frames’. These cognitive structures are shaped by our personal and collective histories and allow us to conceptualize and organize what we see (and fail to see) and how we see it. The meani... See more
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
one technique she recommends is inviting people to imagine how they might explain an idea to a classroom filled with children or to recall the senses rather than the emotions involved in a memory.