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April 15, 2008
Reports as comic books
Is there anything more boring than reading another dry report? Of course not. But what if you your next report was a comic book? That would kick all kinds of ass.
Well, it turns out comic (or magna) format can be a surprisingly effective way to communicate important information. At this year's CHI Conference (a conference devoted to human-computer interaction) Evangeline Haughney from Adobe talked about what happened when she turned a normal dry usability report into comic format. It turns out more people read her report all of the way through. The biggest downside was that she had to print more copies, since people tended to hoard the report instead of passing it around. Not bad!
Here's a four-page pdf of Haughney's research.
(Thanks to Rachael Hinman at Adaptive Path)
Posted by Chris Spurgeon at April 15, 2008 03:22 PM