mid semester presentation: stance

So my project has shifted ever so slightly in the past week.

Originally I was focusing on a reliability structure that covered all of these points. But as of this past sunday, I have moved my focus solely to the idea of bias, or political stance.

How can graphic design help a user form a stance on a political issue through comparison of multiple published stances.

my final question is: how can graphic design help a user form a stance on a political issue through comparison of multiple published stances.

The work I had done up until the shift is all still relevant, I’m just focusing solely on political stance, all of the other research still helps and informs this project. I’m continuing to use the visual of the political gradient, but highlighting 5 specific points within it. Liberal, conservative, and three moderate points in between.

This is sam falson. He’s 27, living in chicago, working at Leo Burnett as a Social Media Analyst, and he is a second generation italian american. He lives a ridiculously busy life inside and outside of work, but still attempts to stay up to date on political news. He reads snippets of information on a wide variety of topics throughout the day, but needs help getting more information on specific topics that interest and affect him, like Immigration policies. To get more in-depth information on a specific topic will help him hold a more informed stance.

Stances

That’s what Stances is all about. All stances on specific, user chosen political topics.

It is an iPad app to help users study and research topics indepth

Plus, its also a browser plugin on the iPad with the main function to give the user a quick understanding of the political stance of the page currently being read.

Sam, while on his iPad, wants to save an article on immigration policies, along with the topic itself to his Stances account so he can dive deeper into the topic later.

So, Sam, while on his iPad, wants to save an article on immigration policies, along with the topic itself, to his Stances account so he can dive deeper into the topic later.

in safari, reading an article on TPM, he taps on the Stances button.

Opens up the Stances bar with basic stance information about the page, the specific points brought up on the page, and the ability to save the article and topic. So he taps save.

Which asks him what he wants to save, he taps both article and topic, and then hits save.

he can then tap on either article or topic to read more indepthly about either, Sam taps on article, which takes him to the

app where he can read indepth the information within the saved article. The stances of the article, author, and website, the overall stance, and the individual points of the article.

While having lunch, Sam opens Stances back up on his iPad to read the overview of the immigration policies topic.

While having lunch, sam opens stances back up on his iPad to read the overview of the immigration policies topic.

Taps on stances.

The immigration policies topic is in the recent additions section since he just added it today. He taps on that,

and pulls up the immigration policies page and can see an indepth account about immigration policies, whats be talked about them, the stance of the presidential candidates, plus a history of immigration policies.

Sam wants to read other articles with other stances within the immigration policies topic to help him figure out his stance more thoroughly.

Sam wants to read other articles with other stances within the immigration policies topic to help him figure out his stance more thoroughly.

brings up the page from earlier, this time taps on one of the points on the graph

brings up the articles within that point, picks one article to read

loads the page in the Stances app, with the bar at the top to give him more info. He taps on points

to agree or disagree on the points of the article, and saves his answers. He taps the right arrow to go to the next article in the list.

fills out questions for this article, all of this to help Sam understand his stance better. This time he taps graph to bring up the graph to look at a differnt stance.

he taps on conservative.

which brings up an article of a different stance,

fills out wether he agrees or disagrees on the points of the article. He then taps on the back button...

to see a list of which points he agreed and disagreed on. This creates a visualization of Sam’s stance for himself. It helps him better understand the topic at hand, and figure out his opinions on the topic, and be able to take a stronger, and more informed stance.

Digitalize

Brand

Produce

From here it’s all about digitalizing and tightening the wireframes, finalizing the branding, and producing all of the screens to bring Stances to life!

Stances

Thanks!

How can graphic design help a user form a stance on a political issue through comparison of multiple published stances.

Stancesmy final question is: how can graphic design help a user form a stance on a political issue through comparison of multiple published stances.