Family Tree Project

Information design applying the concepts of visual perception covered in lecture and the readings.

Your team will develop a visual scheme to represent 3 generations of a family that represents as many variables and relationships coherently as possible (minimum 5). The only text should be names. The legend for this scheme should be presented on a single page.

Every team member will individually apply the same visual scheme and format to a different family (it doesn't need to be your own family). Those individual family trees should then be combined to create a single document, with one tree per page.

(If your group would like to choose a subject for visualization other than a family tree, I'm open to that. Consult with me before choosing something, though.)

Write up your team's visualization approach in a detailed one-page summary to preface the document: describe all the specific principles applied, and how well they correspond to representing the intended information (selectivity? length? etc.).

We will discuss and critique the designs in class, so be prepared to introduce and present your work coherently and concisely. Each group will be graded as a whole with all group members receiving the same base score out of 70 points. Your individual implementation of the scheme will constitute the remaining 30 points.

All documents (the group key/description and the individual implementations) should be submitted to the dropbox by a single group representative, no later than midnight on Monday, January 22nd.