Comments on: The Importance of Clarity

By: For Today's Post, Just Follow the Hand | Middle Zone Musings

For Today's Post, Just Follow the Hand | Middle Zone Musings — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:01:36 +0000

[...] The Importance of Clarity [...]

By: Robert Hruzek

Robert Hruzek — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:37:06 +0000

Howdy, Sam! What’s fascinating to me is just how difficult it is to be perfectly clear with a minimum of words (or even a symbol) to the greatest number of people. Interpretation of words and symbols has a large cultural component to it, so sometimes it’s virtually impossible to be clear to everybody at the same time! Leads to some hilarious stuff, though.

By: Sam (Azuaron)

Sam (Azuaron) — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:28:03 +0000

There’s actually a whole field of study devoted to this, which is a subset of the field of Human Factors/Ergonomics/Engineering Psychology (whichever you want to say at the time). I’m actually at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meeting right now. Most research in this kind of clarity is done with things like safety symbols and warnings. I remember seeing a study last year that looked at the safety symbols developed for building collapse after 9/11. Basically, the government sucks at making safety symbols.

By: Robert Hruzek

Robert Hruzek — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:00:05 +0000

Dang! I accidentally published this post on the wrong date! Well, since it’s here, might as well…