Week 6 Day 1: Final Flowchart & Critique

This is the final flow chart project. We re-worked everything to fit onto the page and connected our visuals to the actual events in the flow chart for greater cohesion. The field was reworked to give a fuller view of gameplay and the clock to be more uniform. The title was also changed to make it more dynamic and attention-grabbing. We decided to add icons into the entire flow chart for things like kick, pass, & run so that they were even more easily & quickly identified.

Printed & mounted version of our final flowchart

In class we had the final critique on our project. LeAnne & Alyssa represented the group for the presentation & talked mostly about our progress and outcome of the flowchart and the overall process of the gameplay as represented in the flowchart.  As Alyssa summarized it,

 We started with brainstorming ideas and creating a lot of lists for various things. This is when we decided that football is such a complicated sport and we need to eliminate to only the most important aspects of the game. Next we split up the group each focusing on a different flow chart for a player, the coin toss, or the overall game itself. As a group then we found the best way to explain the sport after much brainstorming. We finally came up with using swim lanes in a stair step pattern to show the downs of a game. Since football is so repetitive it was important that we showed that each down there is the same outcomes and everything eventually ends in a score or a turnover.

Most people thought the flow was done very well and, for a complicated sport, did a nice job explaining the most important things. A few comments touched upon connecting our penalties with visuals of some sort (perhaps ref hand signals, which is something we had attempted early in our process), another on allowing the player flowcharts stand out. However, we wanted to integrate the player flowcharts since football is such a player-driven sport, each with their own responsibilities (though we only touched upon the quarterback & defensive linemen). The biggest critique, though, was also on the color scheme. Granted, the colors did print differently on the final piece then on the test print, & seeing it as a whole--a large whole at that--the colors don't necessarily communicate football. Our main goal in using these colors was to stay away from the cliche green field & yellow field post kind of thing. Like stated in the critique, it really depends on the user and what they perceive from the colors.