Designers
Principles
Graphic Forms
Numbers & Type
Other
100
Designer of the Rose Diagram
Who is Florence Nightingale?
100
What should you add to your design in order clarify?
What is detail?
100
This is a big no-no when designing bar charts.
What is 3D? - Third dimension is meaningless
100
This is the preferred alignment for text.
What is left?
100
Amount of data/ Area of display
What is data density?
200
Designer of Napoleon's March Through Russia.
Who is Minard?
200
The acronym LATCH stands for these five ways of organizing information.
What is Location, Alphabetical, Time, Category, Hierarchy?
200
What type of graph shows data over time?
What is a line graph?
200
The formula for the area of a circle.
What is A= πr2 (squared)?
200
Ways to improve your credibility as a designer.
What is list sources and put your name on your work?
300
Designer and writer of your text book, "Envisioning Information"?
Who is Edward R. Tufte?
300
Non-data ink can also be described as this.
What is Chartjunk?
300
This type of visual that has more than two attributes or characteristics.
What is a multivariate display?
300
This typeface category works well in tables and online.
What is sans serif?
300
Asking a question, Finding something surprising about your data, begin with an -ing word are all strategies for what?
What is creating a title?
400
Designer of the well-known wing shaped memorial organized chronologically that contains over 58,000 thousand names.
Who is Maya Lin?
400
Tufte’s name of the method would you use to show lots of data in one eye-span and show detailed comparisons with repetition.
What is small multiples?
400
The video we watched in class on Tuesday, "Powers of Ten" is an example of what kind of display?
What is macro/micro?
400
This phenomena refers to the interaction between two visual elements to create an additional visual element.
What is 1+1=3?
400
Name two principles of effective information display not already discussed during this game.
show causality, integrate word, number, & image, be consistent, look at good models, make meaningful color choices etc.
500
Designer of the NY Times War Chart that we discussed in class on Tuesday?
Who is Matthew Erickson?
500
Name five good info design principles embodied by Mathew Erickson’s NY Times war chart?
Plain language, to clarify add detail, be consistent, show causality, represent data accurately, let the data speak for itself, comparison
500
Five graphic forms that visually represent data.
What is pie chart, line graph, table, map, pictogram, line graph
500
This is why variety in type and design is important.
Contrast is easily recognizable by the brain.
500
This circular graphic form utilizes a circular space in the middle. (bonus points if you can state the positives of using this form)
What is a donut pie chart?
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