Week 5 (Mon, Oct 2-Fri, Oct 6) – Design School / Research
- Mon, Oct 2 : No Class: VisWeek
- Wed, Oct 4 : No Class: VisWeek
- Fri, Oct 6 : No Class: VisWeek
- Reading: Week 5 – Design School / Research
- Discussion 5: Visualization Research (first post due 10/03)
- Seek and Find 5: Design Principles (Design School) (due 10/06)
- Design Challenge : Design School – Redesign (due 10/08)
This past week, we looked closely at encodings and practiced trying to pick them apart and redesign them. We also spend a little time talking about graphic design. Hopefully, you got started on Design Challenge 1.
Next week, we’ll break the flow a little bit… No classes (since it’s the IEEE Vis conference). No milestone for the Design Challenge. But there are readings, a seek and find, and an assignment due on Sunday (as a Design Challenge would have been).
There are two disjoint topics: One is to learn about design by picking up some principles, and seeing how to apply them. Another is to get a sense of what visualization research is. The reading/discussion assignments and seek and find should get you doing this – even though there are no lectures to discuss it.
Learning Goals (for this week)
These two topics are put together because of the timing of my travel week. Me being at the Vis conference is an excuse to get students to see what it is.
Design School:
- Give students some appreciation for (and awareness of) visual design principles
- Give students some practice at applying visual design principles
- Give students soem practice at critiquing visual designs
Research:
- Have a sense of the range of topics that are covered at a modern visualization research conference (as a proxy for the topics considered in the field).
- Have an idea of what visualization research papers look like.
