Designing Public Documents
Author | : Elaine Kempson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Authorship |
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Author | : Elaine Kempson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Authorship |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nick Moore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1994-02-01 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : 9780853745303 |
Author | : Massachusetts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 974 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Massachusetts |
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Author | : Daniël Janssen |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789027232014 |
Annotation Government documents--forms, brochures, letters, and policy papers--that are difficult to understand create problems both for the public they're intended to help and for government agencies. In this collection, researchers from five universities in the Netherlands survey recurring problems in government documents and offer possible solutions. The contributors are linguists, document designers, and other communication experts who have studied public documents both empirically and from a design point of view. Though the subject is Dutch documents, the text is in English, and the work may be of interest to those investigating government communication in other nations as well as those who produce similar documents in the private sector. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author | : Elaine Kempson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2000-07-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780853745372 |
Author | : Miles A. Kimball |
Publisher | : Bedford/St. Martin's |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2007-12-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780312436995 |
The technological revolution of the last ten years has radically changed document designers' materials, processes, and tools of the trade. In short, choices about everything from typography and color to planning and production have changed -- even multiplied. The first new text for the college market in ten years, Kimball and Hawkins' Document Design assumes from the start that students are working online to produce a fuller range of print and online documents, designed and delivered differently in a digital world. Through practical, accessible advice and examples, Kimball and Hawkins lay out the array of elements and choices that document designers need to consider, all in the context of a rhetorical framework that allows students to see the effects of those choices. The only text to integrate a range of theoretical perspectives, visual perception, visual culture, and visual rhetoric, Document Design teaches students to think more critically about their own design decisions and to keep usability in mind every step of the way. True to its message, this artfully designed text practices the principles it teaches and is sure to become a reference that students will keep.
Author | : Darin Gad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The design of public documents playsan important role in user perception and understanding of the important information they contain. Moreover, the design of such documents can have an important impact on user self-confidence and decision making. The information design principles pertainingto how to visually structure and verbally construct documents to be easily well perceived and understood can provide valuable insights on how public documents should be designed and presented. Yet, in designing public documents there is a lack in applyingthe information design methods and frameworks. On the other hand, the Gestalt principles of perception can explain how humans organize visual elements into groups and how humans perceive and recognize patterns. Since their introduction in the early twentieth century, the Gestalt principles were examined and studied various times to improve the visual perceptual process in many application areas such as: painting, sculpture, graphic design and information design. Accordingly, this work studies the application of the Gestalt principles to improve the user understanding of public documents. To this end, first an adapted heuristic evaluation method is proposed to identify the usability problems of public documents. Secondly, based on precise measurements of thevisual elements within the documents, a document analytics method is proposed to examine the application of the Gestalt principles as well as the design principles in public documents. A sample comprising two public documents is used to test and demonstrate the proposed methodology. Based on the design flaws detected by the aforementioned two methods, a minimal approach is adopted to apply the Gestalt principles to solve the identified problems. The results obtained show that the integration of the Gestaltprinciples in the design process can improve the accessibility of information in public documents and resolve many of the usability problems in these documents.
Author | : Massachusetts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Total Pages | : 1064 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Total Pages | : 1434 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Utah |
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