Reading Journal: Visual Design 2

Due
12:00 noon, Wednesday, November 4
Preparation
Read chapters 4-6 of Designing with the Mind in Mind:
  1. Our color vision is limited
  2. Our peripheral vision is poor
  3. Reading is unnatural (Skim if you are short on time!)
Submitting your work
Please post your response as a blog entry on CLEo.
Collaboration
Each student should turn in their own answers to the questions below. You may discuss the assigned readings with anyone you wish, but you should clearly acknowledge the source of any insights that come from outside your own reading of the text(s).
Evaluation
I will evaluate this assignment on the scale presented in the syllabus.

Journal questions

  1. What was it like to read about reading? [metacognition]
  2. What idea in today's reading resonated with you the most? Quote a sentence and explain why you chose it. [prioritization, analogy]
  3. What idea in today's reading was the most surprising or counterintuitive? Explain that idea in your own words. [prioritization, translation]
  4. Which of Johnson's design guidelines or suggestions do you think will be most useful for your project? Why? [prioritization]

Janet Davis (davisj@whitman.edu)

Created October 27, 2015
Last revised October 27, 2015

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