Visual+Literacy

Overproteined Visual Enhancement.

To me, the Overproteined table enhancement seems to be a little jumbled and not so clear when you first look at the table. The pictures seem to be unorganized and don’t get the point across right away. I focus on the pictures and numbers but I don’t know how to store the info immediately because my perception is to store the bigger numbers before the smaller numbers. In terms of PAT, this table has good colors that divide each statement, or piece of information apart from one another. The table has great contrast in colors, so it is easily readable. It also has great clip art that is familiar to the audience but I believe it can be displayed in a more appealing way. This table has many flaws to it. Starting with Gestalts perception, where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, the table is talking about large numbers but the way they are displayed it seems like the number is displayed before the words, million and billion, so when you look at it, the chart seems to flow out of order and can be confusing. The table also doesn’t seem to have great contiguity. Your eye doesn’t know whether to look at the words or pictures. The pictures could be displayed or aligned better not so sporadically on the chart so that it’s more aesthetically pleasing. It could also be more aesthetically completed by adding more textures and different fonts. I would change the layout make the clipart aligned with the information it goes with as well as use the clip art to guide the eye to the information because the art is what grabs the audience’s eye first. Finally I would add different fonts to bold the most important information so the topic gets through the audience right away.