Announcing (On One Page)
(On One Page) – is an information design pattern aimed at assisting people to master best practice guidelines, policies, procedures and bodies of knowledge. I have created some examples:
- New South Wales Health Department’s, Aged Care Assessment Guidelines (On One Page) . This is sourced from a 144 page book!
- The Project Management Institutes’s, PMBOK Guide – Fourth Edition (On One Page). This is a 350+ page book.
Principles
The (On One Page) design pattern has the following features:
- The user is presented with a one-page visual metaphor of all the concepts contained in the book, manual or “body of knowledge”. In the case of a book the index may be an adequate visual metaphor.
- The one-page visual metaphor:
- is interactive
- gives each concept a fixed position in relation to all other concepts
- allows focus by only showing a subset of all the concepts at one time
- The concept in focus is gold coloured and “see also” concepts are colored light blue.
- For concepts with associated text, the text may be displayed in a popup window.
By means of these design decisions, users may
- See “both the wood and the trees” simultaneously. The wood is the whole body of knowledge and the trees are individual concepts.
- See the interconnections between concepts.
- Use spacial as well as verbal memory to master concepts and their interrelationships.