Today I start my 100 days of my Design Exploration

I start today not only to write this blog about my design understanding but 100 days of running as well. I told the world(actually just my brother but now I have to accomplish it. Even though I have registered for swimming as well and I am gonna join the gym. Maybe running can either be in gym or outside. tThis way workout is regular even with no gym.

Its surprising that I finish my Masters and then start my exploration but honestly this is the time I am actually starting to read and explore the field of design on my own. This is the time I am sitting and thinking about design concepts.

So today I start with reading Edward Tufte. He has written a lot about information visualization. So I am reading his principles about how to represent data. Initially I think about graphs and other types of statistical information we come across in various articles. I start thinking that I don't want to read about stats and quantitative data, i want to read about design, color, typography etc. But then it comes to my mind, something my sister told me. She suggested me to read tufte and she gave me an example for it. She suggested I read design principles and try and apply them to something. This might be a boarding pass or a website. The principles can be applied to display information like departure time on the boarding pass. Its just one information i.e. time but it has to be conveyed to the user properly. Similarly everything website, documents etc presents some information and designers have to make sure to provide good visualization to it.