UNIT 4 READING

We are immediately introduced to a seemingly confusing and cumbersome infographic. With its interactive properties you click through all the countries and you realize the alarming numbers of debt that bigger countries have among the rest, than the smaller countries like Greece. You immediately see the political connection and it actually upsets me, to applaud the designer. The connection among all the countries shows how little room there is for money to move around before it loses its value. Then you realize that the debt of money is irrelevant when you think of the millions of lives that are at stake. This Infographic does a good job depicting the problem although I admit there was some effort on my part to dissect the information at first hand.

The quality of relationships designers choose to articulate a subject rides either success or failure. We must always seek to tell the story without confusing people. The information is already confusing. Instead in service, we as designers, seek to make it relevant without losing the point. This form of communicating is important because of how it transcends all levels of a functioning society. The design must be a catalyst to the information that is empowering the reader. In an engineering situation specifically, lives are at stake. It could also mean the difference between lawmakers and legislators being able to pass crucial bills that may help society. We immediately see the consequences in one of the power points narrated, that the astronauts perished because analyst pledged to a committee a useless and vague powerpoint that ended up costing human lives.

Throughout the article you are shown various infographics and we are explained how designers can render information meaningless if applied incorrectly. How we must try our best not to adhere to the social expectations of the internet. The end result may be visually appealing while ignoring the purpose of the design in all its complexity. Infographics serve society in a way that we are hard wired in the brain visually and take advantage how we draw relationships from what we see.