LO2 - 2.1 - Information styles Flashcards
Text
- text style must be easy to read and appealing to customers
- have to fit in with company house style and may be defined in house style
Text downsides
- can be time consuming
- may include spelling errors
-can be factually incorrect
Graphics
-visual form of information
- show products that are available to customers
-can present idea or message immediately
-more engaging method of processing information
disadvantage
- may take longer to load images over a data restricted network
Graphics use
-diagrams
-logos
-maps
-photographs
Video
- visual formats of information, often with audio
-used to inform audience - share between teams
- create training videos
- show work to public/promotion
virtual tours
walk through rooms 360 degrees
more effective way of showing space indoors and outdoors
easier to follow and more engaging
video downsides
- large amount of storage
- time to upload/download
-take long time to create
Animated graphics
-images with multiple frames
-used to show a process
-easier to understand
-understood by all ages and language speakers
downsides
-time to create
Numerical
-info represented by numbers
-statistical data is easier to understand and manage = 234 rather than writing it
- can be exported into spreadsheets
-presented as graphs to visualise data
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Nimerical downside
-long numbers can be inputed incorrectly = human error
-formatted data like telephone numbers cannot be stored as numerical bc numerical doesn’t allow spaces