Infographic project

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1.     Modal: http://visual.ly/text-talk

What is useful: After looking through the infographic, I know the infographic talks several things. Its organization is totally different from the example organization professor shows on the class, which is approaching the organization of my TED talk’s infographic. I can learn how to include every element in my infographic and use the similar shapes to connect different content.

What is not useful: In my infographic, there is no data comparison. It is useless for me.

Q: How does this modal accommodate the content?

A: It talks about that texting is very popular nowadays and texting is a big business, which is shown by statistics in the infographic. The author divides parts of the whole infograghic into two columns to show some comparable items, which is very clear. The author also quotes some main ideas. 

2. Outline:

  Introduction: Social scientists spend a lot of time finding that body language has significant effects on the way people judge someone else and others judge them. However, the most important point in the body language is that we are the audience of the body language. People always forget that they are influenced a lot by the body language.

Body:       A. Nonverbal experiences of power and dominance

When people have power, they arm up in the V and lift their chins slightly. They want to expand themselves. When people have no or little power, they wrap themselves up and make them small.

B. Three questions

a. Can people pretend to participant in the events?

Yes. When people pretend to be powerful for two minutes, they will really get power.

b. Can our bodies influent our minds?

Yes. People who have power have higher testosterone and lower cortisol.

c. Can people have more significant future after being the same useful gesture for a short period of time?

Yes. Employers are more likely to hire people who have powerful gesture.

C. Amy Cuddy uses her personal experiences to indicate that if people can pretend to have power and try best to do, they will be successful in the end.

Conclusion: “Fake it till you become it.” Amy Cuddy is very willing to spread her knowledge out. She hopes people who have less power can finally get successful using her method.

2.     How will your infographic accommodate your content?

Firstly, I am going to compare two postures using two columns. One exits when people have power. The other one exits when people lose power. Secondly, to shows these three experiments, I am going to use the method that is used in the infographic on the class. This format will show the cause and the effect well. Thirdly, I will quote some important sentences to express and explain the idea. Fourthly, decorate the infographic to attract more readers.

4. What will you steal from other infographics?

  As I mentioned before, I will steal what the infographic (shown on the class) do to talk about the three experiments. At beginning, the person is powerless. Then, he pretends to be powerful for 10 minutes. After that time, he really feels that he is powerful. As a result, the recruiter selects him. It illustrates that body languages influences minds and then affects results.

5. Infographic draft (Because I am not good at in drawing, I draw the same people to represent the different people. In the final work, I will make them different.)

Selfie Challenge

It is very interesting! I take a lot of photos.

Entry 9

In our narrative story, the twitter bot becomes the person whose commands cause the conflict between our restaurant and customers.
Step one: One of our customers (maybe one of my members will pretend to be that customer) makes a command in which he says that the hash in out restaurant is so delicious and he can not get rid of it.  He is totally addicted to it.
Step Two: One of our members pretend to be the twitter bot and catch the keywords. They are "hash", "addicted". Then the twitter bot makes a command. "Oh my god! People eat hash, the drug, in that restaurant. It is illegal! We cannot eat in that restaurant at all!"
so far, the twitter bot misunderstanding the meaning of "hash". It will make a conflict. Is our restaurant illegal? Should people stay away from our restaurant?  We, as the boss of the restaurant, faces a big fake rumour and we needs to fight for our reputation and legalisation.

TED Talk Infographic Project

1. TED Talk: Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

  Website:  https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are

2. Outline:

  Introduction: Social scientists spend a lot of time finding that body language has significant effects on the way people judge someone else and others judge them. However, the most important point in the body language is that we are the audience of the body language. People always forget that they are influenced a lot by the body language.

   Body: A. Nonverbal experiences of power and dominance

When people have power, they arm up in the V and lift their chins slightly. They want to expand themselves. When people have no or little power, they wrap themselves up and make them small.

        B. Three questions

a. Can people pretend to participant in the events?

Yes. When people pretend to be powerful for two minutes, they will really get power.

b. Can our body influent our minds?

Yes. People who have power have higher testosterone and lower cortisol.

c. Can people have more significant future after being the same useful gesture for a short period of time?

Yes. Employers are more likely to hire people who have powerful gesture.

C. Amy Cuddy uses her personal experiences to indicate that if people can pretend to have power and try best to do, they will be successful in the end.

Conclusion: “Fake it till you become it.” Amy Cuddy is very willing to spread her knowledge out. She hopes people who have less power can finally get successful using her method.

3. Reasons

As content: This TED Talk can help many people to gain power to face the life. It can be a job interview, an exam and so on. I also get huge benefits from it. Actually, I really need it to help overcome my timid and powerless. When I am afraid of challenging myself. As for the organization of this TED Talk, Amy Cuddy combines experiments and personal experiences together. She also expresses her points in a very clear way. Audiences can be easy to follow her and convinced by her.

As infographic: In this lecture, Amy Cuddy lists many gestures people will do when they have power, and many gestures people will do when they have little power. Looking at the infographic, audiences can easily contract them. Amy Cuddy also talks about some experiments. Using infographic can make them much easier to be understood by audiences.

Entry 8

I am very interested in infographic thinking because it widens my horizon. After reading this article, I know the three dominant things a graphic editor needs to do. I will talk about the first two things in this post.

Firstly, Graphic editors need to filter information from tens of thousands of pieces information. For example, they read a long article and summarize the main idea of the article. They cannot leave out any of important information. Otherwise, the audiences may have difficulties to access and understand it. What they do is like making up a Jigsaw puzzle. If they leave out some of vital pieces, people cannot figure out the image at all.

Secondly, Graphic editors are supposed to establish the relationships and discern patterns. They cannot design an infographic deviating from the original meanings. They select the most important information and establish the most suitable relationships to connect these fragments of information. Only they do it successfully, the audiences can understand it correctly. What’s more, they also need to pay attention to aesthetics. They cannot use awful patterns to organize an infographic because awful patterns are failing to attract audiences.

The Infographic Thinking Workshop teaches students how to do these three things. I like the group works in the workshop. In the group work, I can use what I have learnt and exam my ability. I can also learn a lot from my group members. Group tutoring is also good to find my shortcomings.

If I have the chance, I want to participate in the workshop.

Found Alphabet

Original picture is from the website. http://fourfivex.net/blog/?cat=27
I edit the picture and make it more obvious.

Entry 7

Dr. Marquardt always widens my horizon because I never know there is a big research behind typography. I just granted it and use it follow my taste. After reading the book, I know the definition of typography. It is the visual component of the written words and good typography can reinforce the meaning of the text. Typography benefits readers rather than writers. And it also a useful way to help writers catch readers’ attention. Gathering the basic information, I compare and contrast two texts in which the only discrepancy is typography.

These examples are from the book. If I only consider the aesthetics, I like the second one. The first one gives a sense of coldness and numbness. It is just like a person who only has body but soul. The second one gives me a flexible sense, like spring. It is like a person who has sufficient emotions, kindness and warm heart. However, if I consider their functions, I choose first one. The two signs exist on the highway and there function is to give information to drivers who are in high-speed cars. They must be understood in a very short time. The second one is not readable and understood by drivers in a minute maybe a second. Under that situation, the first one is more like a calm policeman who ensures the safety. The second one is like a person who wears a lot of jewelry but to fail his work. Admittedly, it is not easy to have a good typography. In later writing, I need to pay more attention to it.