[stcusesig_l] Looking for some data

[Whitney Quesenbery]

There's a difference between "not just opinion" and "documented
convention". There has been a lot of academic work on visualizations
(start at the University of Maryland's HCIL papers).

But unless you have a very small group of users with very similar
experience or habits, I'd be pretty cautious about assuming that there
is any standard you can build on. I'd certainly want to test this.

W

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Rahel Bailie <rahel.bailie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> --
>> Mary Deaton
>> Deaton Interactive Design
>>
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