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This is a portfolio of my work in many forms. It should give you some insight as to the products I might help you to create.

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16 of 365: Cognitive Dissonance #design principle

16 of 365 - Cognitive dissonance design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
16 of 365 - Cognitive dissonance design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
16 of 365 - Cognitive dissonance design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
16 of 365 – Cognitive dissonance design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

Cognitive Dissonance occurs when a statement or idea causes conflict or discomfort because there is a motivating part and a demotivating part of the idea. For instance, cognitive dissonance occurs when you want to leave or stop using a service because of the cost, but you will have to do a lot of work or lose features when you leave. If you’ve ever tried to leave your cable company, for instance, they may have tried to cause cognitive dissonance by offering free services if you stay.

In this illustration, I repeat a statement that has caused plenty of cognitive dissonance, if you love me, you’ll do something that I’d like you to do that you’d rather not do. If the emotional connection with this person is strong, you are more likely to act to show that.

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Tonight at PPL: Evernote

Evernote for iOS icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

I’ll be teaching a class on the ubiquitous and useful note capturing tool called Evernote tonight, 1/15/2014 at 7-8:30 at Princeton Public Library. I’ll explain how to capture voice, photo, web and text notes, share them, and have them with you everywhere you go. You might like it because it’s:

 

  • Free
  • Available on most major platforms, desktop and mobile
  • Easy to learn and use
  • Versatile in its abilities to capture different kinds of media.
  • Searchable

 

From their own site, they list the benefits:

 

“Keep everything in sync. With Evernote, all of your notes, web clips, files and images are made available on every device and computer you use.

Remember things you like. Save everything cool and exciting you see online and in the real world. Snap a photo, record some audio and save it.

Save favorite webpages. Save entire webpages to your Evernote account with our nifty web clipper browser extensions. You get the whole page: text, images and links.

Research better. Collect information from anywhere into a single place. From text notes to web pages to files to snapshots, everything is always at your fingertips.

Work with friends and colleagues. Share your notes and collaborate on projects with friends, colleagues and classmates.

Plan your next trip. Keep all of your itineraries, confirmations, scanned travel documents, maps, and plans in Evernote, so you’ll have them when you need them.” ~ Evernote | Evernote – https://evernote.com/

 

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15 of 365: Closure #design #principle

15 of 365 - Closure design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
15 of 365 - Closure design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
15 of 365 - Closure design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
15 of 365 – Closure design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

Closure is part of a set of design principles called the Gestalt principles of perception. Closure says that when we see a set of individual elements, we tend to put them together as a set in our mind. Humans fill in missing information to try to solve each shape as part of a set with collective meaning.

In this illustration, I took the image of a rabbit, and broke it down into a series of lines. By using the viewer’s innate ability to resolve missing parts, it makes the image of the rabbit simpler, design wise, and more interesting aesthetically.

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14 of 365: Classical conditioning #design #principle

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14 of 365 - Classic conditioning design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
14 of 365 - Classic conditioning design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
14 of 365 – Classic conditioning design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

Classical conditioning is a method by which a subject, object, idea or action is associated with an emotional or bodily response in the mind of an observer. The most famous example of classical conditioning is Pavlov’s dogs that began to salivate when their trainers arrived, even when food was not present, because the dogs associated their presence with being fed. Designers can do the same thing over time with associations in their designs, such as a beautiful girl and a soda, or negatively influence observers with skulls and crossbones on cigarette boxes. Classical conditioning can influence the behavior of observers who believe an action or image that works to associate an idea with an emotional response.

In this illustration, I have personified the idea of software, and asked observers to believe that one classification of software, open source, treats you well, and another classification of software, proprietary, does not.  This is a true story.

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13 of 365: Chunking #design #principle

13 of 365 - Chunking design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
13 of 365 - Chunking design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
13 of 365 - Chunking design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
13 of 365 – Chunking design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

Chunking is a method by which you take ideas that need to be taught or remembered, and break them down into memorable, consumable chunks. Studies show that we have more difficulty remembering a list of ten words than two lists of five words each. The most effective chunking consists of four items, give or take one. It can be used to help remember numbers, ideas, and lots of other chunks.

In this illustration, I decided to show that trying to convey a birthday, social security number, and phone number is more difficult as a single string, less difficult with chunk based formatting, and easier still with one idea per line.

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12 of 365: Cathedral effect #design #design-principle

12 of 365 - Cathedral effect design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
12 of 365 - Cathedral effect design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
12 of 365 - Cathedral effect design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com
12 of 365 – Cathedral effect design principle by John LeMasney via lemasney.com

There is research that suggests that people complete tasks differently in environments where there are notably high or notably low ceilings. In environments where the ceiling is not noticeably high or low, it did not have an effect. High ceilings tend to have a cognitive effect of opening up creative and big-picture thinking, whereas lower ceilings have the effect of more detail oriented thinking.

In this illustration, I’m demonstrating the idea of people in both high- and low-ceiling environments.

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