👁‍🗨 General Information

Instructor: Yvette Shen

Lab: Hayes 222

Email: [email protected] Personal work: https://designviz.osu.edu/ Lab: https://vlab.osu.edu/

Preferred means of communication: EMAIL

Student hours: Monday/Wednesday from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Or by Appointment on Zoom.

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Email: [ [email protected] ]

🥅 Course Description

This course explores the relationship between visual design and the field of information visualization. It presents design strategies of how information can be structured and visualized to create effective communications and to stimulate viewer attention and engagement. Students will practice information design by exploring the implications of cognitive principles, communication theories, design thinking and design process, aesthetic principles, and semiotic systems in order to develop skills to analyze and design effective information visualization and communication.

By the end of the semester, students should be able to:

Solve communication problems and carry projects from ideation to the production process using a user-centered design approach. Skills include basic research, data collection, data filtering and analysis, concept brainstorming, integration of feedback, and the evaluation of outcomes.
Understand tools and technology, including their roles in the creation, production, and distribution of visual messages.
Create and develop visual concepts in response to communication problems and target audiences, including an understanding of the principles of visual organization, information hierarchy, symbolic representation, typography, aesthetics, and the construction of original meaningful forms.

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<aside> 💯 Grading Policy

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OSU Academic Calendar

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<aside> 🎛️ Stress and Time Management

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🏆 Grading Breakdown

Reading reflections. 20%
Assignments: skill-based exercises. 60%
Project. 20%

<aside> 📢 All assignments are due at the end of the week (Sunday). For grading questions, please contact our TA.

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