"unemployment" assignment

Literal: Hats
Slow
Men
Suits
Black & White
Old
Free Soup
Shoes
Concrete
Line

Symbols:
Free
Coffee & Doughnuts
Unemployment
Free Soup

There is men waiting in line to recieve free coffee and doughnuts. It is assumed that they are all unemployed. There is probably about fifty men waiting in the line. The photo is black & white and it is of a street, probably in a major city. The line of the men is horizontal of the picture. There is a large building in the background.

Visual Thinking Research - BLOG Exercise

The Next Square puzzle, we both used different strategies and ended up with different answers. He thought it used some type of subtraction in a ticking motion where the lines went around to the right. He tried using pattern completion. First I used his same method but then I realized it did not work and then used finding. That is when I discovered numbers within the boxes starting with one and ending with four. I then figured the last one would need five and found the appropriate shape according to the pattern.



The 2nd Puzzle here, my partner Frank and I did the same way. We looked at the different triangles. We used a pattern finding way. We both did not need to write on the paper, we could do it by looking at it.

Ex2 Feature Hierarchy in Visual Searches BLOG Exercise

This is New York City subway map.

The colors from the transit lines are very bold against the nuetral background color. Also the shape of the New York is comprised of many shape edges like the lines of the subway which makes the map easier to look at than if it had many jagged edges. All of the names are outlined in black to be easily read. All of the transit lines parallel to eachother are similiar in color to possibly outline the similiar directions the lines go in. All other transit lines are very bold against eachother. The background of the transit lines are also very nuetral colors of light turqoise and light gray which helps the bold colors attract attention.

This remote control is from a massage chair.

The areas which seem to stand out the most would be the lower half of the control, which has the STIFFNESS, RELAX, RECOVERY, FINE, and ON/OFF buttons. These seem to be stragically placed and large due to their quick acting functions. The sleek curve at the bottom and raise of the lower half of the control signifies the importance of these main controls. Some other things I noticed was the SOLE WARMER button being a red color which evokes a warm feeling. All of the upper body controls are highlighted in a sea foam green categorizing the buttons as a single function for the massage chair. Also all the higher/lower adjustments regardless of their function are identical in color and triangle shape. The overall layout of the remote is not entirely flowing, the contrasting colors of black and white cut block out different sections and the different colors of the buttons is related to a function, not a color scheme. This remote was obviously designed for the use of practicality and less for design, however, many design elements are used for the ease of using this remote.