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• You have one final assignment. Over the course of the quarter, I have asked you to familiarize yourselves with design principles and information graphics, to recognize those principles and graphics as they appear in various settings, to analyze their effectiveness, and to apply these principles to existing documents. Now you need to create a product of your own using these methods.
  
  Here is what I would like you to do:
1. Identify a work of information design that is ineffective and needs redesigning, OR identify a specific need for a document or product of information design where currently none exists. Explain. Refer me to the current design, when possible. Look to your workplaces, your institutions, or your daily routines, habits, hobbies, and interests to identify one of these areas of need. Length: 2 pages.
   
2. Redesign the current information or create the needed information using the principles and graphics in your textbooks. Length: 2 pages.
3. Justify your design choices. Length: 2 pages. 
• These lengths are approximations only, and will depend on your choices, but the complete assignment should be a minimum of five pages. You are certainly welcome to submit more than five full pages of work, but no more than seven. As you have seen, good information design is generally concise, intuitive, and accessible to a number of audiences. Follow the same format guidelines as last time.  Use a new paper size, font, color scheme, etc., from your last assignment.  Don't forget to include a note about what font you chose and why.
  
  
• Also, I plan to save your work to use as teaching tools for this course. You will remain anonymous. If you do not want me to use your work, I will need you to state this when you submit your final project, please.
  
  
• Best to all of you in your studies and workplaces, and if you have any questions about this final project, please contact me.

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