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Diagram Design: Form Follows Function Principles

Learn how to create effective diagrams by understanding the principles of form following function. This workshop will cover organizing principles, considerations for audience and message clarity, and the importance of design in communication. Join to hone your diagram-making skills!

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Diagram Design: Form Follows Function Principles

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  1. Diagrams that Work WTMC workshop April 09 Dr. Willem Halffman Fac. Management and Governance Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STePS) w.halffman@utwente.nl

  2. Key question What is your diagram a diagram of? → What is your diagram for? A diagram is also a design problem... ... and in design “form follows function”

  3. Considerations of function • communication meanspresentation, text • audiencegeneral, STS/specialist, YOU (!) • core messagecomplexity, key features(detail vs. general point)

  4. Organising principle 1 analysis → distinctions → boxes, axes

  5. Organising principle 2 map → relatedness → network, clouds

  6. Organising principle 3 genealogy → influences → tree, arrows author d author b author a author c

  7. Organising principle 4 organism → function → flow chart

  8. “data ink”

  9. task • read a diagram of another member • author explains intention • discuss possible alternatives • (for each member until bored) • report back at 21.00

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