pizzzzzzzza

While thinking of ways I could put my map together of how to make a pizza, I first thought of images I would use to represent the different ingredients and images to represent directions, since no words could be used. I wanted to involve a little chef guy, an oven, and the typical pizza ingredients. I figured that who ever was reading it could assume the role of a chef and they could easily follow what the chef was doing. I feel my map flows easily and avoids confusion by my use of arrows, colors, and images.

            Besides figuring out images to use, colors were also an important element to consider. I kept colors the usual colors that you would see in real life or that someone would image when thinking of pizza. I thought of the usual three colors, red for sauce, yellow for cheese and tanish color for the pizza dough. I colored the arrows bright orangish red so that they would stick out and be the main focal points in the map, and also so the person could easily go from one picture to another in correct order. Just like I described earlier in my blog, pictures and colors can represent a lot more than words can. Plus colors with a white background make things appear more vividly and important, which is similar to the term visual search.

            The box I put around several of the steps are important because they keep the map clean, organized, and grouped so that the person reading the map will see each individual step and not clump them together. The arrows also help with making each step separate as well as showing action. Also, the pictures I chose to draw are ones that are very common in kitchens all over. I wouldn’t have chosen to draw a whisk, because maybe not everyone knows what one is.

            As well as figuring out what images and colors to use, I also wanted to make sure there was enough space between the pictures. I didn’t want to overload the page or have things too little that there is obvious negative space, but as we learned in class, some space is good to use, so therefore I left a good amount of space so everything could be evened out.

            Furthermore, I found that this map was fun to make. However, it was tricky at first thinking of how I would represent words through pictures and what colors I would use for certain images. I also enjoy making homemade pizza, so it wasn’t like I had to look up directions or products to make a pizza. I consider this map easier to put together than the other ones, because with this one we could put it together however we wanted where the other ones involved words, as well as images and a certain way to organize it. Out of everything that I observed while creating this map, I realized that space, color, specific images, and organization are most important.