8. More is up/
Good is up
• I’m feeling up. That boosted my
spirits.
• I’m feeling down.
• Get up. Wake up. She rises
early.
• He’s at the peak of health.
• He’s under the weather.
• I am on top of the situation. He
is under my power.
• My income rose last year.
9. Future is forward, past is back
• In the weeks ahead of us…
• That’s all behind us…
• I’m looking forward to seeing him.
• Back to the good old days
See also http://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2010/09/26/representations-of-
the-future-with-graphs/
52. Two videos sites.
The “meal” is the video, and the tools to
consume (or play with) it are arrayed
around the main meal.
(P.S. There are toolbars too)
62. Comics are read
in the west left to
right, like a page.
However, good
artists add visual
elements to help
you read the flow.
http://samkieth.blogspot.com/
65. There is
composition
here
Despite the density of information, the eye lands on the product, and moves to the buy buttons.
Amazon reassures the user this is a good place to buy with a plethora of data. It’s part of their brand.
73. Georgia is always welcome
Display fonts are hard to read
As are scripts
74. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and
divines. With consistency a great soul has simply
nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his
shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard
words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in
hard words again, though it contradict every thing you
said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be
misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be
misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and
Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and
Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit
that ever took flesh.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
76. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little
minds, adored by little statesmen and
philosophers and divines. With consistency a
great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as
well concern himself with his shadow on the
wall. Speak what you think now in hard words,
and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in
hard words again, though it contradict every
thing you said to-day.
— 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' —
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates,
and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and
Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise
spirit that ever took flesh.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
78. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored
by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With
consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as
well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what
you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-
morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every
thing you said to-day.
— 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' —
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was
misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and
Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and
wise spirit that ever took flesh.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
88. Got a lot of pictures? Use less color in the interface.
89.
90.
91.
92. Just say no to
stock photos
They always look a bit… surreal
93. DO LESS
• Only use 1-2 fonts.
• Only use 3 font sizes, all very different. Perhaps a
fourth for footer text.
• Only use one color, with variations, and one “accent”
color.
• Turn on the grid (if you are using Photoshop, etc)
• Never align center.
• Don’t use stock photography, unless you have
awesome taste. It has no soul.
• Know what purpose everything has. No purpose, take
it out.
105. Fragmenting
• Benefits include:
• working with individual elements of complex structures;
• obtaining information about a representations inner structure;
• revealing hidden information and patterns
115. Add interactions for your kitchen
computer.
•Animating
•Annotating
•Chunking
•Cloning
•Collecting
•Composing
•Cutting
•Filtering
•Fragmenting
•Probing
•Rearranging
•Repicturing
•Searching
Interaction and the epistemic potential of digital libraries
Fast & Selig, 2010