In our end-user manuals, web pages, portable digital devices, and interface designs, our pictures always seem to play a subordinate role to our words. We find them too hard to illustrate; we encounter too many resolution and incompatibility issues, and we can never seem to make them attractive enough, meaningful enough, and usable enough.
In this workshop, we will get very graphic (ha ha) with these challenges. We will spend a fun-filled session sharing common problems, evaluating your existing design challenges, visualising different types of information, and working on some innovative hands-on exercises. In the end, the workshop's goal is to help both information developers and usability professionals evaluate and boost the visual appeal and usability of the information that they produce, and to empower them with simple tips and tricks to become visually and graphically savvy.
In the past, this workshop has attracted more managers and information specialists than illustrators and graphic designers, because it reveals that the former group is clearly vital to the development of usable visual information, and offers solutions that benefit both 'textual' designers and 'visual' designers alike.
This is a very special event, as Patrick is now living in Australia and doesn't get to the US that often.
