Elevation+Picture+1



Add your picture (be sure to include your name too) and usability comments below. Try to reference the class textbook at least 3 times.

//This is cartoon Linda. She is showing you what to do.// || What’s lacking is efficiency and a clear instructional message. This visual does not make important information easy to read (p. 87) and it does not help the reader integrate the overall message. The arrows add clutter and confusion to the image. These extraneous elements should be weeded out. The word down stands well on its own as does the word up; neither need the arrow to support meaning (p. 89). Following Peterson’s diamond shaped design process, the author needs to Evaluate and then Eliminate all but the most essential elements. It is also a performance image? (p. 1) || Bret Naber ||  ||
 * [[image:et604/LindaPoints.jpg]]
 * [[image:BNPic.jpg]] || I chose the first picture elevation picture for the usability test. I will assume that the visual is for a elementary aged child. The visual has arrows that help describe the content about elevation and temperature. In Chapter 4(p.82) is suggests that you do not use too many boxes. The boxes due cause some confusion. The 2 boxes with text in the middle bleed together and it is difficult to differentiate the message. Again in chapter 4(p.81) shows an example of a background image that is not faded appropriately. The image in the background is of a similar color but the boxes hold their individual background and the text is readable. Another example on (p.86) of chapter 4 shows a bolding of participles. The bolding is not verbs (hiding as adjectives) but it is main topic of the text and it gains some attention. Overall the image could have been done better. I would have stayed with 2 font sizes and split the text up to read horizontally for each message. I don’t think that the picture is necessarily technocentric. It appears to me that some editing was done and things might have been removed as the pyramid strategy would have suggested.