Stuck? Diagrams Help.
How to Make Sense of Any Mess
howtomakesenseofanymess.comsari added
process diagrams and even org charts.
Julie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)
When problems are really tough, we need to get drawing. We draw to see what we think, in order to evaluate those ideas.
Christina Wodtke • Pencil Me In
Abhilash Rao added
But very few interfaces do a brilliant job of the third need: showing me where I've been and how I got here. We can do it at small scales. Patterns like breadcrumbs help us navigate through website or wiki with lots of subpages, but those don't scale well beyond ~7 steps.
Historical Trails
Alex Dobrenko and added
To think through scope and scale, ask yourself: 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
The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
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A good structure is something you can trust. It relieves you from the burden of remembering and keeping track of everything. If you can trust the system, you can let go of the attempt to hold everything together in your head and you can start focusing on what is important: The content, the argument and the ideas.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
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