**The Functional Art**

- Gehirn macht Repräsentation von Bildern -> weiteres Abstraktionslayer

- Infographics vs Visualisation
Information vs exploration

- Functional Art:: nicht Tools zum Anschauen, sondern zum Lesen und tiefer verstehen

- Beziehung zwischen Visualisierung und Kunst, ist wie Beziehung zwischen Journalismus und Literatur

- From Information to Wisdom ->  Aggregat impedes ability to see support for both trends

- “If you don’t present your data to readers so they can see it, read it, explore it and analyse it, why would they trust you?”

- “You have to help users avoid information anxiety” 

- to much data

- Make certain phenomena visible


- Figurative <-> non-figurative

- Always ask yourself: What does the designer want me to do with this graphic?


- Wieso lesen? - Visualisierung besser verstehen -> Konzentriertere / Fokussiertere -     - Herangehensweise 


**The Truthful Art**

- The quality of your graphics depends on the quality of your research.
- Checklist for good visualisation:
    - Reliable information
    - Visually encoded so relevant patterns become noticeable
    - Organised in a way that enables at least some exploration, when it’s appropriate
    - Attractive manner
- Menschen haben Bugs
    - Patternicity bug
    - Storytelling bug
    - Confirmation bug  

**Africas Voices Report - AAP Consultation**

**Good Design**

- Discoverability :: Make clear how to use object?
    - Affordances  :: make something possible for a user group
    - Signifiers :: show how to use product
    - Constraints :: 
    - Mapping :: of control should natural map to designed thing 
    - Feedback :: responsive
- Understanding
    - Conceptual model :: everyone makes own model of how object works