[stcusesig_l] stcusesig_l Digest, Vol 4, Issue 5

Tue Aug 12 15:29:02 MDT 2008

Regarding your question "What Value?"

Tag cloud is pretty much self explanatory for any users looking at the interface; to convey the importance and the weighting of various subjects they can be explored, with a easy glance with context to the online applications/products basic need which directly help user to quickly analyze before performing the action.

I think this link may be helpful to know more about user perception towards graphics as size, shape, placement, color and principles of similarity, proximity, common region and connectedness - http://homepages.ius.edu/rallman/gestalt.html

Sandeep Rathod
User Experience Specialist
http://sandeeprathod.designer.org.in/sandeeprathod(at)hotmail(dot)com

> From: stcusesig_l-request at mailman.stc.org> Subject: stcusesig_l Digest, Vol 4, Issue 5> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:18:04 -0600> To: sandeeprathod at hotmail.com> > Send stcusesig_l mailing list submissions to> stcusesig_l at mailman.stc.org> > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit> http://mailman.stc.org/mailman/listinfo/stcusesig_l> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to> stcusesig_l-request at mailman.stc.org> > You can reach the person managing the list at> stcusesig_l-owner at mailman.stc.org> > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific> than "Re: Contents of stcusesig_l digest..."> > > When replying to a message from the digest - please remember to set the subject of your message to something appropriate. Thank you.> > Today's Topics:> > 1. Looking for some data (Mary Deaton)> 2. Re: Looking for some data (Rahel Bailie)> 3. Re: Looking for some data (Elisa Miller)> 4. Re: Looking for some data (Kristi Leach)> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------> > Message: 1> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:40:01 -0700> From: "Mary Deaton" <mmdeaton at mmdeaton.com>> Subject: [stcusesig_l] Looking for some data> To: "STC Usability and UX discussion group"> <stcusesig_l at mailman.stc.org>> Message-ID:> <fbb2fc330808121240h1e5bb04bsf715564adf05f505 at mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"> > 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> -------------- next part --------------> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...> URL: http://mailman.stc.org/pipermail/stcusesig_l/attachments/20080812/5564c7b8/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------> > Message: 2> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:59:44 -0700> From: "Rahel Bailie" <rahel.bailie at gmail.com>> Subject: Re: [stcusesig_l] Looking for some data> To: "STC Usability and UX discussion group"> <stcusesig_l at mailman.stc.org>> Message-ID:> <a011bc5d0808121259x56096dd9r27b249b2f1a52220 at mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1> > 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> >> >> > _______________________________________________> > stcusesig_l mailing list> > stcusesig_l at mailman.stc.org> > http://mailman.stc.org/mailman/listinfo/stcusesig_l> > Unsubscribe:> > http://mailman.stc.org/mailman/options/stcusesig_l/rahel.bailie%40gmail.com> >> >> >> > > > -- > Intentional Design Inc. www.intentionaldesign.ca> Content strategies for business impact> Content management, content development, user experience> +1.604.837.0034> > > ------------------------------> > Message: 3> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:11:29 -0700 (PDT)> From: Elisa Miller <elisa at txmillers.com>> Subject: Re: [stcusesig_l] Looking for some data> To: STC Usability and UX discussion group> <stcusesig_l at mailman.stc.org>> Message-ID: <412677.20968.qm at web81508.mail.mud.yahoo.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > Mary -> > Try looking under visual grammar. That terminology has gained some traction in the design field. Maybe that will help> > Elisa Miller> elisakm at yahoo.com> elisa at txmillers.com> 214-902-8966 (home)> > > "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.> Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. " Goethe> > > > ----- Original Message ----> From: Mary Deaton <mmdeaton at mmdeaton.com>> To: elisa at txmillers.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:40:01 PM> Subject: [stcusesig_l] Looking for some data> > > 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> -------------- next part --------------> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...> URL: http://mailman.stc.org/pipermail/stcusesig_l/attachments/20080812/fef2e926/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------> > Message: 4> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:19:38 -0400> From: "Kristi Leach" <kristil at softcomputer.com>> Subject: Re: [stcusesig_l] Looking for some data> To: "STC Usability and UX discussion group"> <stcusesig_l at mailman.stc.org>> Message-ID:> <E808B0FF3BE7A946AB8DEA3AB021A25701033058 at SMTP2.softcomputer.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > Mary,> > > > I got to wondering what Visio uses, and in the course of googling that I> came across some terms that might be helpful. Actually, the first> paragraph of the Business Process Modeling Notation Wikipedia article> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Modeling_Notation ) has> several, so here it is:> > > > The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a standardized> graphical notation for drawing business processes> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process> in a workflow> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workflow> . BPMN was developed by Business> Process Management Initiative> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Management_Initiative>> (BPMI), and is now being maintained by the Object Management Group> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Management_Group> since the two> organizations merged in 2005. Its current adopted version is 1.1 and the> proposed one is 2.0.> > > > Kristi Leach> > SCC Soft Computer> > Technical Communications> > (727) 789-0100, ext.4080> > kristil at softcomputer.com> > ________________________________> > From: stcusesig_l-bounces+kristil=softcomputer.com at mailman.stc.org> [mailto:stcusesig_l-bounces+kristil=softcomputer.com at mailman.stc.org] On> Behalf Of Elisa Miller> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:11 PM> To: Kristi Leach> Subject: Re: [stcusesig_l] Looking for some data> > > > Mary -> > Try looking under visual grammar. That terminology has gained some> traction in the design field. Maybe that will help> > > > Elisa Miller> elisakm at yahoo.com> elisa at txmillers.com> 214-902-8966 (home)> > "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.> Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. " Goethe> > > > > > ----- Original Message ----> From: Mary Deaton <mmdeaton at mmdeaton.com>> To: elisa at txmillers.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:40:01 PM> Subject: [stcusesig_l] Looking for some data> > 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> > -------------- next part --------------> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...> URL: http://mailman.stc.org/pipermail/stcusesig_l/attachments/20080812/ccfa97c8/attachment.html > > ------------------------------> > _______________________________________________> stcusesig_l mailing list> stcusesig_l at mailman.stc.org> http://mailman.stc.org/mailman/listinfo/stcusesig_l> > > End of stcusesig_l Digest, Vol 4, Issue 5> *****************************************
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