Sublime

declarative memory.

Narrative provides not only meaning but also a mental framework for imbuing future experiences and information with meaning, in effect shaping new memories to fit our established constructs of the world and ourselves.

Framing is a process—a method that guides the human mind toward understanding, imagination, and the evaluation of options.

Corollary of Fifth Law of Cognition, Cognition mirrors perception: Spatial mental frameworks can organize ideas.

Consider desire lines in projects that emphasize usability. When possible, use creative methods to detect desire lines prior to finalizing design specifications.

Landscape architects are increasingly embracing desire lines from the outset, allowing desire lines to emerge in parks and campuses over a period of many months, and then paving the lines to make permanent walkways. The approach is certainly preferable to the more common alternative: Attempt to predict how people will navigate a landscape, render

Burtin developed two basic approaches: The purist, where charts and diagrams were compressed into a two-dimensional projection, with color used to facilitate understanding; and the dramatized approach, the grouping of visual data with poster-like impact as in a chart describing how cosmic ray trajectories bombarded the earth.

When we are aiming for pop-out, we only have about three difference steps available on each channel: three sizes, three orientations, three frequencies of motion, etc.

Connie Malamed’s Visual Design Solutions