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 November 25, 2017

During class today, my group and I received some suggestions about our infographic. Some of them are highlighted below:


  • Our visual of the road conveys how to apply to the club well, but our graphic does not convince pre-health/aspiring EMTs to join WPI EMS as well as we had hoped.
    • We should include more benefits, time commitment of the club, contact information
  • Our road signs were a bit difficult to read
  • Starting at the stop sign is discouraging
    • We had originally decided to use the stop sign as a "stop, you need to be certified before you can apply to be a part of the club", but since it does have a universal meaning of stopping altogether completely, the graphic could be used at the end of the road rather than the beginning to signal an end to the application process
  • The title section could use work as it currently resembles the FBI warning logo at the beginning of videos.
Some recommendations the class made:
  • Scoot the whole graphic up - get rid of the title and move the road up
  • Our classmates seemed to like the four icons at the bottom of the infographic and suggested that we include more specific details about the club underneath the graphic. 
  • They also recommended we change certification to get certified since it was the only noun in the four word grouping at the bottom of the infographic.


This wonderful drawing by Caroline illustrates the direction we will be changing our infographic to resemble. 

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