Quote from Lucio Buffalmano on August 19, 2021, 1:44 pm

The traffic light based on Matthew's latest idea:

Made me smile how the designer copied Matthew's design pixel for pixel, including typos and line slants :D.

Thoughts?

Quote from Matthew Whitewood on August 19, 2021, 2:00 pm

It does look more polished :-).
I don't have thoughts immediately coming to mind.

Quote from Ali Scarlett on August 19, 2021, 4:15 pm

I like the idea because, once explained, it makes a lot of sense.

And, that's the same impression I had with the seismic wave graph design: seems complicated on the surface, but easier to comprehend after some solid explanation.

I finally got some time this morning to give it some proper thought. And, I think that one type of graph that many people easily understand is a bar graph.

E.g.

What to know:

• The bar is the behavior.
• Where the bar lands is how value-taking that behavior was (you want it in the green, address the orange and red).
• That's it.

What do you guys think?

Quote from Matthew Whitewood on August 19, 2021, 5:09 pm

This looks good man!
Thanks for sharing your design and I've no idea how you make this so fast.

My mind is a bit blank at the moment.
Maybe better thoughts will come to mind.

My quick thought is that your graph has a vertical axis relating to the traffic light of the behaviours.
My graph has a vertical axis relating to the overall power accounting.

I think both can go together.

• Mine is like a graph of distance vs time for a car
• Yours is like a graph of speed vs time for a car

 

Quote from Ali Scarlett on August 19, 2021, 5:35 pm

Quote from Matthew Whitewood on August 19, 2021, 5:09 pm

This looks good man!
Thanks for sharing your design and I've no idea how you make this so fast.

Believe me, Canva does all of the heavy lifting :).

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And, on your second note, I hadn't thought of it that way. And, I think you're absolutely right.

My bar graph illustrates the fluctuations in behavior. Your line graph illustrates the progression of a relationship.

So, my graph is more of a hawk-eye view (a close look at where each behavior falls on the traffic light scale). And, yours is more of an eagle-eye view (a step back at how the behaviors affects the relationship over time).

That means that they'd probably go very well together. So much so, in fact, that I think it might do an injustice to the learner to leave one or the other out.

If I'm misunderstanding, Matthew, please let me know.

Quote from Matthew Whitewood on August 19, 2021, 6:12 pm

I think we're on the same page!

Thanks for outlining your thoughts on it too.

Quote from Lucio Buffalmano on August 19, 2021, 7:22 pm

Thank you, Ali, I like it.

As a whole, it strikes me as potentially complex-looking.

But I like that it re-introduces the scale on the axis.

And I love the "behavior" name under each bar: one of those seemingly small details that makes a huge difference in clarity. Genius.

The Green Confusion

Also I think that when I first described the "green" as "OK" I was referring to power-taking action that when not too power-taking.
But that is confusing then if we consider that green is also power-giving.

I'm thinking about how to address this issue now.

The Solution

So I'm thinking:

• Green: any friendly or power-giving move
• Yellow: inconsequential, you can let it slip
• Orange: disempowering, it impacts your status and reputation
• Red: heavily power-taking. It sets a precedent if you let it slip, so unless you truly have no other options, you're basically forced to take action

Quote from Ali Scarlett on August 20, 2021, 12:21 am

You're right, Lucio, here's a quick fix:

And, a tweak based on your notes:

Quote from Matthew Whitewood on August 20, 2021, 5:10 pm

After reading the feedback from Lucio on Ali's thread, I was initially confused by the 4 colours: green, yellow, orange, red.

At first, I thought

Wow, it's yellow so it's moderately serious.

Then I realised we updated the colour scheme.
Yellow is the least serious colour of value-taking power moves.

Maybe we need some fresh eyes for feedback on these 4 colours.
I think the colour intensity does make sense.
Yellow comes across as the least strong followed by orange then red.

But 3 somehow seems to be a magic number for intuitiveness.