[stcusesig_l] Looking for some data

[Rahel Bailie]

Have you looked through the articles here:
http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles/Communication/Visual-Rhetoric

Also, the books by Tufte are a great source of information.

Rahel Bailie

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Mary Deaton <mmdeaton at mmdeaton.com> wrote:
> I am working with a client who is creating a small application in which a
> person can manipulate objects in order to show importance, intensity, and
> relationships. The objects will be shapes or icons. The question has arisen
> about whether people already assign meaning to objects based on size, color,
> or opacity. We certainly see from tag clouds that there is an assumption
> that a larger size indicates a greater value, but part of the question is
> what value?
>
> I have spent the past several hours doing a literature search about visual
> rhetoric, interaction design, icons, visualization, and some other choice
> words, but have yet to locate something that is not just opinion and
> indicates that there is a known, documented convention that we might refer
> to. IF I cannot resolve the issue via a literature search, I need to do some
> user testing, fast.
>
> Does anyone have a pointer to the perfect article? Or book title?
>
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> Mary Deaton
> Deaton Interactive Design
>
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