In this example, the design and prototyping loops on the tube-map help communicate that a prototype model is an aid to modeling the design process and not a separate step completed only when the design has been finalized. The linear nature of text in a book or images in slide-deck presentations can artificially impose a linearity that does not mirror the creative process we want to impart. I’m fond of the tube-map infographic style, also know as the topological map 2, because of its ability to highlight relationships between systems and especially because of how it distinguishes between linear (do once) and recursive (do over and over) processes. (Click for full-sized image.) Creating the Tube Map: Start with Requirements Analysis in the upper-left and follow the tracks to Public Release. A visual guide to the process of designing and building mobile apps. I hope you’ll find it a useful perspective on the work involved in crafting mobile apps and an aid to the process of creating your own. As part of the course, I created a visual overview of the process we use for app making. Along with my colleagues from WSU Vancouver’s Creative Media and Digital Culture (CMDC) program, I’ll be returning this June to the beautiful University of Victoria in British Columbia to teach the course again 1. Rebecca Bennett is a member of the Support team at Avenza Systems and loves ice cream almost as much as she loves making creative and visually appealing maps.Last June I had a great experience team-teaching a week-long seminar on designing mobile apps at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). Have fun celebrating National Spumoni Day, and have fun making your own infographics! Click below to see the finished infographic. The graphs use the same colours as the maps, and for finishing touches I added the ice cream symbols and fun facts. Once the legend was created, I created the graphs using Adobe Illustrator’s Graph Tool. You can change the legend entries size, and the legend key font, size, colour, as well as details about the title, and the border. There are lots of options for customization when creating the legend. To create a MAP Theme legend, select your MAP Theme Stylesheet and click the Legend button at the bottom of the window. My favourite part of MAP Themes is that it’s super easy to create a MAP Theme legend after. I then followed the same steps for the dairy production map. Once I’d generated my rules, I applied my MAP Theme. I then chose the fill colour to be a custom colour group I created with spumoni-inspired colours. I used the ‘Batch Generate Rules’ option and chose 5 classes. One MAP Theme for the dairy production, and one for ice cream consumption. I created a MAP Theme for each map, based on the attributes I created. MAP Themes are an easy way to stylize areas, lines, and points. Once the tables were joined, I used MAP Themes to stylize the maps. Once the spreadsheet was created, I joined the tables in the MAP Attributes. To create each map, an Excel spreadsheet was created with information about the countries milk production, as well as the average amount of ice cream eaten. The infographic consists of two different maps one showing the amount of ice cream eaten per capita around the world, and another showing the amount of milk produced per year by country. Cherry, pistachio, and chocolate or vanilla are the most common. What is spumoni you may ask? Spumoni is a molded gelato with different layers and, usually containing nuts and fruit! Spumoni is usually 3-4 flavours. Curious about how I made it? Keep reading! Instead of making just a map to celebrate this layered frozen delight, I made an infographic, containing not just one but two maps! Using a combination of Adobe Illustrator and MAPublisher tools, this infographic has graphs and two maps teaching you fun facts all about spumoni, gelato, and ice cream. You might have noticed, we like to celebrate national food days here at Avenza Systems. Adobe Illustrator and MAPublisher work perfectly together to make infographics simple like the one I made for National Spumoni Day. Infographics are a great way to transform less than exciting data into a visualization that is both digestible and fun to look at.
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