DESIGN (using the raw material of your article review)
Between now and December 1, you will rework your review text into one of two design platforms. We will take about ten-fiften minutes each day to look at some aspects of document design. Note: in real life, when you are in high stakes design environments (conference, for example), you may want to hire a designer.
The two design genres are
- Review in template (text-heavy but with design elements) Earn less than A- on review? Choose this.
- Slide presentation (your choice of platform)
FIRST UP: slides: Here are some guidance readings for you on slides. "CrossTalk" at Cell features this good overview . Do you know that 10/20/30 rule? Nice write-up here hosted by the Slideshare platform. What does Tufte say about slides (Power Point started this)? Tufte is famously anti-slides. I think we can know his critique and still embrace slides.
Slides PLUS persona! TED talks are worthy study objects for the interplay on slides, persona, and presentation. This short article offers a simple critique of the TED genre of slides.
Case study: I presented slides for a short INSPIRE session at the August Ecological Society of American meeting. Here is the first run, in a December 2016 National Park Service competition "A Science Tale of Wonder" (Google Presentation)
- Articles based on this slide competition, posted at NPS website
- Overview slides from NPS on Science in Parks project
- Samples of the TED-like creature, called an Ignite Talk
Questions for slide design, ALWAYS:
- Stand alone slides v. presenter-essential slides
- Too much "junk and stuff"
- Slide Share is one place to see bad stuff, especially that labeled as bad
- UC Davis PDF-PPt of bad slides
- author image
- visuals from article
- open access conceptual diagrams
- other?
- Bullet use and document design are visual elements
- government-origin visual that sheds light?
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Using MS Word as design template: We will analyze the second option of design into a template. This is what we aim at. Here is a checklist for what needs to happen in this assignment option.
You will need three or four images for this work; Make a folder and start looking for images; save them to this folder. Candidates?
- journal cover (two articles, two covers)
- web logo from journal site
- images of lead authors (NEED evidence of permission)
- visuals from the articles
- quotes from article designed into a pull quote
- useful figure from government or open access website
- copyright-free conceptual diagram (Google images, with permissions filter is your friend)
Start collecting visuals for your design document. Tomorrow, we chat about sourcing ethics on visuals.
MS Word file of what designed document can look like. Here is the masthead for you to use in the template.
FIRST: Copy your review document into a new file. Single-space that document and note the page count.
SECOND: Download this image, called a masthead, to your hard drive. Then, place the masthead at the top of the first page of your document.
Note: this masthead is courtesy of Megan B. (now a medical illustrator):
Marybeth Shea
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