Tutorial: 26. The Art of the Interface: Visual Ideas, Principles and Inspiration for Interface Designers

Suzanne Watzman, Watzman Information Design

Benefits
You will learn principles of visual communication from historical art and images, visual communication and information design. Explore these principles through examples, exercises and individual and group activities.

Origins
This is a new tutorial for CHI 98, but is based on established seminar series and tutorials.

Features

• understand the principles of art/images, visual communication and information design
• understand successful and failed images
• learn visual design principles
• learn basic visual building blocks
• learn to create effective visual communication solutions

Audience
Anyone who is involved in the design and presentation of visual information including visual 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 activities.

Instructor
Suzanne Watzman is president and founder of Watzman Information Design. Her work focuses on making things easier to understand and use including interactive environments, branding and organizational identity, technical communications, conceptual graphics and interface design. She has taught professional courses at MIT, Massachusetts College of Art, IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory; has presented tutorials on visual, graphic and information design at CHI 92, CHI 94, Hypertext, Swiss Ergonomics Society and Influent Technologies.

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• 11. Practical GUI Screen Design: Making it Usable (Sunday)
• 13. Metaphor Design for User Interfaces (Sunday)
• 35. Managing Color in Interactive Systems (Monday afternoon)