Information Design — FLIP Classrooms

03.02.2025 - 00.00.2025 / Week 1 — Week 

Chan Zhi-Ren Zenndan / 0369069

Information Design / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Class Activities & FLIP Classrooms

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Table of Contents

    1. Instructions

    2. Week 1

    3. Week 2

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1. Instructions

Fig 1.0 Module Information Booklet

FLIP classrooms are class activities done within our assigned groups. My group members are:

    1. Emily Ong Su Yu (Leader) — 0365304

    2. Ng Jia Xuan — 0375273

    3. Irdhina binti Mazli Sham — 0366894

    4. Lim Yeng San — 0366316

    5. Lu Zi Jian — 0380401

    6. Joel Chong Jun Yu — 0341132

    7. Chan Zhi-Ren Zenndan — 0369069

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2. Week 1

This week's task is as follows:

In your group, find out what are the different types of infographic + the kind of information they're applicable for + an example for each identified type.

Fig 2.0 shows our final slide presentation, but our group was not selected to present in class.

Fig 2.0 FLIP 1 — Different types of infographics & online tools

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3. Week 2

The offline class required us to create slides to talk about “Good vs. Bad Infographics.”

Fig 3.0 shows our final slides, which was presented in class.

Fig 3.0 Class Activity — Good vs Bad Infographics

We were also instructed to watch the video that was provided which taught us the fundamentals of text animation in After Effects. Fig 3.1 shows what I was able to replicate from the video.

Fig 3.1 Practicing text animation

This week's FLIP classroom is held in Teams. The task is as follows:

In your group, present an explanation on the topic and provide examples or scenarios of what information best utilized with each principle. You can use the given Exercise 2 as your examples as well.

Fig 3.2 shows our final slide presentation, which we presented in class.

Fig 3.2 FLIP 2 — Saul Wurman's L.A.T.C.H

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4. Week 3

No class

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5. Week 4

This week we learned about chunking, which is an essential principle to learn for our upcoming Instructable Poster task.

This week's task is as follows:

In your group, present an explanation on the topic and provide an example of how to best utilize this technique in terms of visual delivery for each of these approach:

1. A well designed infographic

2. UX/UI, web, app, games (screen based basically!)

3. Processes (Refer to Project 1 brief as an example)

Fig 5.0 FLIP 3 — Miller's Law (Chunking)

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6. Week 5

The lecture this week talks about Manuel Lima's 9 Directives Manifesto. We were to explain each principle and show examples of how each were applied. Fig 6.0 shows our slides that were presented in class.

This week's task is as follows:

In your group, present an explanation on this topic and find one example of how to best display and utilize design for each of the directives.

As conclusion, do also present one good designed infographic that best illustrate the 9 directives for information visualizations and one poorly designed infographic that failed to address the directives.

Fig 6.0 FLIP 4 — Manuel Lima's 9 Directives Manifesto

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7. Week 6