Tutorial: 24. Visual Literacy for Interface Designers: Tips, Tools, Techniques, and Inspiration

Monday 09:00 - 17:30.

Suzanne Watzman, Watzman Information Design, USA

Benefits
Learn the principles of visual communication from historical arts and images, visual communication, and information design. Explore these principles through examples, exercises, and individual and group activities.

Origins
An update of a highly-rated tutorial from CHI 97.

Features

• understand the principles of visual communication and information design
• learn to differentiate successful and unsuccessful presentations of information
• learn fundamental visual design principles
• learn to create effective visual communication solutions

Participants are strongly encouraged to bring 2-4 printouts of work-in-process for the tutorial project. For example, bring particularly troublesome interactions, unclear visual designs or icons, unclear information designs or confusing graphics.

Audience
Anyone who is involved in the design and presentation of visual information, including designers, software developers, researchers, programmers, interface designers, human factors specialists, and developers of online information.

Presentation
Interactive lecture, slides, demonstrations, drawing exercises, and guided individual and group activites.

Instructor
Suzanne Watzman is founder and president of Watzman Information Design. She has 18 years experience in the areas of visual design of interactive environments, branding and organizational identity, technical communications, conceptual graphics, and information. She has taught professional courses on information design at MIT, Massachusetts College of Art, IBM, Los Alamos National Laboratory, CHI 92, CHI 94, CHI 98, Hypertext, Swiss Ergonomics Society, and Influent Technologies.

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