InfoD-Cafe: Designers' criticisms to the design of experimental material

[Jose de Souza]

David Sless, Jorge Frascara, Paul Stiff and Rob Waller,

Many thanks for the help.
Indeed, your insights and examples are very important for
teaching others (and myself) how to
conduct research in the field of information design.
A task that starts by learning how to assess existing research.
GREAT!!!

Jose'.




2008/6/30 Paul Stiff <p.stiff at reading.ac.uk>:

> ah yes ... thanks for completing my sentence
> P
>
> incidentally to the topic of this brief thread, I hope that the current
> clusters of work on various aspects of Isotype see this; they might also
> recall E. Tufte's thinly concealed scorn for Isotype
>
>
> On 29 Jun 2008, at 23:11, Rob Waller wrote:
>
> The paper Paul is referring to is Macdonald-Ross M. and Waller RHW (1975),
> 'Criticism, alternatives and tests: A conceptual framework for improving
> typography?', Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, vol 12, 75-83.
> It was part of a special issue on typographic research, and urged
> researchers to respect the tacit knowledge of expert designers.
> You could also look at pages 193-3 of Waller RHW and Macdonald-Ross M
> (2000), 'The Transformer revisited', (232kb), Information Design Journal,
> vol 9, 177-194.
>
> This includes a description of the experiment published by Madeleine
> Vernon, a leading psychologist of her day, in her popular 1963 Pelican book
> on The Psychology of Perception, in which she shows that what she claimed
> were 'Isotype' charts do not work. But the actual chart she tested was a
> hopelessly amateur version. We asked Marie Neurath to redesign it, and our
> own tests (unpublished) found it to work well.
> __________________________________
>
> Rob Waller
> Department of Typography & Graphic Communication
> University of Reading
> T +44 (0) 118 378 6411
> M +44 (0) 7850 665933
> r.waller at reading.ac.uk <p.luna at reading.ac.uk>
>
>
> On 26 Jun 2008, at 10:50, Paul Stiff wrote:
>
> Michael Macdonald-Ross and maybe also Robert Waller ...
>
> I may be able to find examples, but can't stop at the moment
>
>
> paul
>
>
> On 26 Jun 2008, at 10:20, Jose de Souza wrote:
>
> Colleagues,
>
> I need your help once more.
>
> One of the criticisms made by designers in relation to the validity of
> empirical research comparing "equivalents designs" for a given
> information problem
> (e.g., visual instructions, diagrams etc.)
> is that these designs (experimental material) are per se badly
> designed or amateurish.
>
> Do you know any written example (i.e., paper or book) of such
> criticism?
> Who are the authors of such criticisms?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> José de Souza
> PhD Student
> Department of Typography & Graphic Communication
> The University of Reading
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José de Souza
PhD Student
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication
The University of Reading
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